About Sharon
Sharon Garland is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with 16 years of professional experience. She combines clear guidance and steady support to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. Sharon takes a warm, straightforward approach in sessions.
She creates a space where clients can speak honestly about what feels hard, without judgment. Conversations focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings, as well as attitudes and habits that get in the way.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on everyday pressures like career strain, parenting demands, sleepless nights, grief, and relationship strain. She also helps people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, obsessive thoughts, and mood disorders such as bipolar conditions. Goals are set around improving daily functioning and resilience.
Sharon uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment principles, and client-centered listening. She blends problem-solving with skills for managing strong emotions and intrusive thoughts. Mindfulness and motivational techniques are woven in when useful.
Clients who find structure and gentle challenge helpful tend to do well with her style. Sessions can include short practical exercises, goal-setting, and reflective conversation. The emphasis is on steady progress, one manageable step at a time.
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters in life; it is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is often helpful for worry, insomnia, and OCD symptoms. Client-centered therapy centers on empathetic listening and collaboration so clients feel heard and can find their own solutions, which supports motivation and clearer decision making.Sharon treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to what you need, what has or has not worked before, and what you want to change. Together you try methods that match your goals and adjust them over time if something does not fit.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever you are, phone sessions work when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or homework support. These options let people keep steady progress while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English