About Sharon
Sharon Jenkins greets readers with a straightforward message: she helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out find practical ways forward. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style and aims to create a steady space where clients can talk about their concerns and set realistic goals.
Sharon is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 25 years of experience in the field. Her work focuses on common, everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with addictions, ADHD, chronic illness, and career strain. Sharon pays attention to how life events, attachment patterns, and past trauma affect daily functioning and relationships. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based strategies.
She uses skills from dialectical behavior and emotionally-focused work when problems involve strong emotions or relationship repair. The aim is to build coping skills and clarify values so people can make meaningful choices. Sharon trained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later moved to Georgia, where she holds the GA LCSW CSW001415 license.
Her experience includes long-term clinical work and helping people through transitions and losses. Outside of therapy she is a parent of a young adult Air Force veteran and enjoys walking, hiking, music, and time at the beach. Those interests inform a practical, grounded approach in sessions that blends warmth with clear, actionable steps.
How Sharon's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions that match their values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about life direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, then teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and shift strong emotional patterns that affect relationships and self-worth. It can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when repairing close connections matters.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharon will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. She will recommend a path and adapt methods based on how a client responds, making decisions together as therapy unfolds.
Online sessions give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other and work through emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, skill practice, and ongoing support between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English