Sharon Link

Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She works with adults and young people on concerns like depression, bipolar mood changes, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges. Sharon brings a warm, interactive manner that aims to make sessions feel practical and respectful.

She favors an approach that centers the person's goals and choices. Clients set the direction and Sharon offers tools, skills, and guidance to try between sessions. Sessions often include practical strategies for mood management, coping skills for high-stress moments, and steps for addressing substance use and gambling problems.

With 25 years of experience, Sharon draws on several therapeutic methods to match what each person needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work, client-centered principles, mindfulness, dialectical behavior concepts, EMDR, and Jungian ideas to help people process difficult feelings and patterns. The focus is on what helps someone function better day to day.

Sharon has worked with people who have chronic illness, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with eating or sleeping difficulties, intimacy and sexual concerns, and isolation or loneliness. Hospice and end-of-life counseling is among the areas she lists.

Sessions are offered in English and Sharon accepts international clients. She holds an LCSW license in Missouri and also in Wyoming. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect people with her practice.

How therapeutic methods inform online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and working at the client's pace. It helps people who need a supportive space to clarify goals and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is an approach used to process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem like the best fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as treatment progresses.

The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example a shorter check-in during a lunch break, sessions without needing a commute, or options that avoid being on camera if someone prefers audio only. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT worksheets, emotion regulation skills from DBT, and EMDR procedures to an online setting when appropriate, helping people make steady progress without rearranging their whole day.