About Sharleen
Sharleen King is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Virginia. She brings 35 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and self-esteem concerns. She works with people facing depression and bipolar disorder, and also supports those coping with the effects of abuse.
Her practice includes additional areas such as adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, disaster-related coping, and multicultural matters.
Background and approach
Sharleen emphasizes that each person is the expert on their own life. She looks for strengths clients can use to move past what’s holding them back. Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes people can make between meetings.
Her manner is supportive and empowering. She encourages people to take gradual steps toward goals like improved mood, clearer self-worth, and better day-to-day functioning. Sharleen aims to partner with clients to find what works for them.
She helps people build skills to manage difficult emotions, repair relationships with themselves, and regain a sense of purpose and direction.
How evidence-based work fits into online therapy
Sharleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical changes people can make. One common approach helps people notice patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then test small changes to improve mood and anxiety. This approach is useful for depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Another approach focuses on processing and coping after trauma and abuse by building skills for emotional regulation and safety. That method is often helpful for people struggling with traumatic memories or intense emotional reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then tailor techniques that fit. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the work can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and interactive work. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English