Sharen Robertson, BACP

Sharen Robertson helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression and addiction. She supports those coping with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, sleeping and eating problems, and career or life changes. She also works with ADHD, bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue. Sharen is a BACP counsellor with 14 years of clinical experience and practical focus on recovery and coping skills.

Her sessions aim to be straightforward and grounded. She listens to each person’s story and helps them spot patterns that get in the way of daily life. Conversations often include practical skills for managing strong emotions, handling difficult relationships, and coping with grief or loss.

Sharen draws on several established approaches to tailor therapy to each person. She mixes acceptance and mindfulness-based ideas with practical behaviour strategies and emotion-regulation tools. Attachment-focused work is used when relationship patterns and early experiences are useful to understand current problems.

She brings personal lived experience of trauma, domestic violence and narcissistic abuse to her clinical perspective. That background shapes a compassionate, non-judgemental style and a focus on safety and empowerment. Sharen also has experience supporting people with chronic health conditions and caregiving stress.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances listening with concrete exercises. Sharen emphasises building skills that fit into everyday life. To start, she asks about the problem, the person’s goals, and practical steps they can try between sessions.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that add meaning while learning ways to tolerate discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of relating and can help people understand and change repeated relationship patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Sharen works collaboratively to match methods to the person’s goals and circumstances. Together they review what helps, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays useful and manageable.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm which formats are offered before booking as the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can use these options to keep therapy regular and practical, while tailoring exercises and between-session tasks to everyday routines.