Sharon Blanchard

Sharon Blanchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 30 years of practice experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. Sharon aims to listen closely and help clients sort through difficult feelings and situations.

Sharon has worked in K-12 school settings and taught graduate-level counseling courses. She has supported parents managing the demands of parenting challenging children and teens. She has also counseled young adults facing career and relationship transitions and middle-age adults making major life decisions.

Her approach begins with careful listening. She helps people identify patterns that keep causing pain and then works with them to try new ways of responding. Sharon integrates client-centered care with evidence-informed tools such as cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques to address mood, anxiety, and anger.

Sharon welcomes conversations that include faith when that matters to a client, and she leaves that decision up to each person. She describes counseling as a collaborative process and wants to support clients in finding a clearer sense of who they are.

People come to her for help coping with grief, trauma, intimacy issues, ADHD concerns, career shifts, and life transitions. Her goal is to help clients develop practical steps that fit their daily lives and move toward calmer, more manageable days.

How Sharon blends therapy approaches for online care

Sharon often uses client-centered Therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her work. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening closely, following the client's lead, and helping people find their own answers. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change them; it can help with anxiety, anger, and low mood.

She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people notice their thoughts and calm reactivity. Mindfulness methods can make it easier to respond rather than react and support coping during stressful moments. Sharon treats choice of approach as a team effort and will work with each person to decide what fits their goals and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. The main practical benefit is flexibility - online work can make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, or parenting demands. It can also allow shorter check-ins when life is busy or let someone choose a session style that matches their comfort with video or audio. Sharon will discuss what will work best for scheduling and goals as part of the first sessions.