Sharon Jenkins
Calm practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sharon
Sharon Jenkins is a licensed clinical social worker who offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on clear steps clients can use between meetings. Sharon uses plain language and listens closely to what matters to each person.
She works from Georgia and provides sessions in English. With 25 years of experience, Sharon blends several evidence-based approaches to fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and build different habits. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the work grounded in each person's goals, strengths, and pace.
Sharon has helped people navigate issues such as depression, substance use, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, parenting concerns, and coping with chronic illness. Her practice also addresses areas like body image, caregiver stress, attachment questions, and career-related change. She pays attention to how multiple challenges interact and looks for practical ways to reduce overwhelm.
Sessions include a mix of talking, skill practice, and planning concrete steps to try between meetings. Sharon aims to be genuine and encouraging while keeping a focus on what will help you move forward. She values collaboration and respects each person's life experience.
Outside of work she enjoys walks, hikes, music, and the beach. Sharon mentions family, faith, and pets as important parts of her life, which inform a grounded, human approach to therapy.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Sharon frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, and it often helps when life changes or difficult feelings get in the way of valued goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sharon collaborates with each person to test methods and decide what fits best based on goals and preferences. She blends approaches as needed and adjusts plans over time to match what is or isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, family, or health concerns. Sharon provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make it easier to connect from home or elsewhere. These options let clients continue progress between busy days and practice new skills with scheduled check-ins and brief messages when helpful.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point