Sharon M Swigart
Practical therapy for family stress and healing
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sharon
Sharon M Swigart is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps adults and teenagers who are dealing with stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma, abuse, parenting challenges, and depression. Her style is steady and unhurried, and she focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Sharon often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a method that looks at thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress, to give clear tools for change.
Background and approach
She also draws on Internal Family Systems, a way of understanding different parts of a person and how they interact. These approaches are presented in simple language and with practical exercises. In sessions she builds an atmosphere where people can talk without feeling judged.
Clients set the pace and Sharon offers grounding and coping strategies when things feel overwhelming. She aims to help people notice small shifts that improve day-to-day life. Her work also addresses related concerns such as attachment issues, blended family challenges, communication problems, grief around divorce and separation, and sources of shame or guilt.
Sharon has experience supporting men, veterans, and those facing aging and geriatric issues. Based in California, she provides services in English and uses a straightforward, collaborative approach. Sharon meets people where they are and focuses on steps that feel manageable for each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life
Sharon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. She also draws on Internal Family Systems, a way of understanding the different parts of a person and how they influence reactions to stress and trauma. These approaches are explained in plain language and come with hands-on strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharon treats how therapy is done as a collaboration - she listens to each persons goals and preferences and adjusts methods over time. That means techniques and the pace of sessions change to match what helps most.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules. Sharon offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what feels most practical. This flexibility helps when arranging appointments across different days and routines and supports ongoing, consistent work toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point