Sharlese Jones
Family-focused therapist with practical tools
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sharlese
Sharlese Jones is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical, evidence-based tools to support families and parents. She draws on 18 years of clinical experience in California to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and challenges around parenting and relationships. Sharlese keeps sessions straightforward and focused on small, useful changes parents can try right away.
She has worked with children, teens, and families to teach skills for handling strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
That background guides her work with families facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, bipolar mood struggles, and intimacy-related issues. Sessions are designed to build confidence and self-esteem while addressing specific problems at home. Sharlese emphasizes practical skill building.
She helps parents set clear routines, practice calm responses to conflict, and communicate more effectively with children and partners. She also supports LGBT family members with understanding and respect. Her approach centers on helping people reconnect with their values and strengths when fear or outside pressure makes that hard.
She describes therapy as a process of learning new habits and developing an inner guide that makes daily life feel more manageable. As a clinician, Sharlese aims to make the first steps simple. She encourages parents to seek help early and offers steady support while families try new strategies and adjust over time.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Two evidence-based approaches Sharlese often uses are skills-based behavioral work and family-focused therapy. Skills-based behavioral work teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, mood shifts, anger, and stress. It focuses on short exercises and real-world practice that parents and teens can use between sessions. Family-focused therapy helps improve communication and routines at home, and it is useful when family roles, parenting stresses, or relationship strains contribute to problems.Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each family about goals, daily challenges, and what feels realistic. Together they will try approaches and adjust the plan based on what helps most for the child, teen, or parent involved.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy family schedules. These options let parents join from home, connect between appointments, and practice new skills in real time. The different formats offer flexibility so families can keep working on goals even when life is full.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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