Sharla "Charlie" Harrison
Practical support for stress and family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sharla
Sharla "Charlie" Harrison is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship or family concerns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making things feel more manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
Charlie listens first and builds a plan with each person. She uses practical strategies to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills you can try between meetings so progress feels real and usable. Her work supports people facing a wide range of issues, including attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family tensions, caregiving stress, and recovery after separation or domestic violence. She also addresses body image, cancer-related stress, dissociation, and compassion fatigue.
Therapeutic methods Charlie draws on include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She blends these approaches to match each person’s needs rather than sticking to one model. Charlie aims for a respectful, practical partnership.
She helps people name what is hard, try new ways of responding, and build steadier routines. The goal is clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better communication at home and work.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship that follows each person’s lead. Online, this often means starting sessions by asking what feels most urgent and shaping sessions around those needs to make progress feel relevant.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and habits into clear steps you can change. In remote sessions CBT can include simple exercises, homework, and tracking between meetings to reduce anxiety, low mood, or patterns that cause conflict.
Emotionally-focused therapy helps people understand and shift emotional patterns that affect relationships. Over video or phone it can guide clearer emotional expression and new ways of responding that improve connection over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk about different methods and try what fits best based on the person’s goals, preferences, and practical needs. That decision is made together and can change as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days, continue work during life changes, and use short check-ins when full sessions aren’t possible. Licensed professionals can adapt tools and exercises to these formats so progress continues even when meeting remotely.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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