About Sharon
Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and other hard challenges. She works in Missouri and brings 25 years of clinical experience to each conversation. Sharon keeps the pace steady and practical so busy parents can fit therapy into their lives.
Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and listens closely before suggesting tools. Clients stay in charge of their goals while she offers skills they can practice between sessions.
Background and approach
Typical sessions focus on building coping skills, improving sleep and self-esteem, and managing mood swings or substance use. Sharon combines practical approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to make space for what matters to the client.
Cognitive techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. When trauma is part of the story, she may introduce EMDR-informed methods to reduce distress. She has experience with a wide range of concerns, including bipolar disorder, ADHD, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and eating or intimacy-related issues.
Sharon also supports people working through caregiver strain, chronic illness, codependency, and end-of-life caregiving. Sessions are offered in English and Sharon is available to work with international clients. She uses a mix of phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into everyday life.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and making space for what matters to the client. The therapist reflects the client's goals and helps people find their own solutions, which can be practiced between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it offers clear exercises to try different behaviors and change unhelpful thinking. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, uses guided processing to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories and related stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That plan can change over time as progress and new needs emerge, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and practicing skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, daily tracking, and quick coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Wyoming
- Languages
- English