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About Sharen
Sharen Robertson works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions and relationship concerns, using practical skills and talking therapies to help people cope and make changes. She is a BACP counsellor with 14 years' experience and accepts international clients.
Sharen draws on several approaches including cognitive behavioural methods and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to focus on what matters in relationships and everyday life.
Sessions are focused and conversational. She helps people build skills for managing anxiety, mood, sleep and addictive behaviours, and works through the effects of past abuse and relationship harm. Practical coping strategies and clearer personal goals are common aims.
Sharen has substantial experience supporting people with ADHD and autism-related challenges, grief after sudden loss, and the long-term effects of abuse and domestic violence. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress and career changes.
She speaks from both professional experience and personal experience of recovery from trauma and relationship harm. That background informs her approach and her focus on helping people develop helpful routines, communication skills and self-management techniques.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book a first session. Fees vary with location and services are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How her approaches work in online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that reflect their values; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques for changing patterns that maintain distress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how past connections shape current reactions and intimacy challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The counsellor works collaboratively to agree what methods to try based on the person's goals, preferences and how they respond in early sessions. This means techniques can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by removing travel time and allowing appointments during breaks or between commitments. Different session arrangements can suit different needs, so please confirm the exact formats offered before booking. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly work this way to support ongoing skill-building, emotional regulation and relationship work without requiring clients to change their daily routines.
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Questions about Sharen
- Does she help with anxiety and panic?
- Yes. She works with stress, anxiety and related sleep or panic difficulties using behavioural and acceptance-based techniques.
- What kind of counselling does she offer?
- She uses cognitive behavioural approaches, acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-based work and client-centred practice to address practical concerns and relationship issues.
- How much experience does she have?
- She has 14 years of professional clinical experience supporting people with trauma, addiction, mood and relationship difficulties.
- Is she a registered counsellor in the UK?
- She is a BACP counsellor and practises in the United Kingdom.
- Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
- Sessions are offered to international clients and she works with people based in other countries.
- What session formats are available?
- Please confirm current session options before booking by checking the platform details and the counsellor's profile.
- How much do sessions cost?
- Costs vary with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
- How do I start counselling with her?
- Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
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