Sharon Silver

Sharon Silver is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure which step to take next. Sharon aims to build a strong therapeutic relationship and offers one-to-one support that focuses on practical change and everyday coping. Sharon uses an integrative approach and draws on several ways of working to match what each person needs. She explains options clearly and helps people decide what feels most helpful. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, and she also supports people dealing with grief and loss. A practical part of Sharon's style is helping people notice how they respond to life and learn alternative ways to cope. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns and to how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas may be used to help people live with difficult feelings while working toward small changes. Sharon also offers support around parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, compassion fatigue and the challenges of life changes. Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, body image, communication and blended family issues among others. Sharon mentions lived experience of raising a large family, which informs her practical understanding of parenting and juggling life demands. She is registered with BACP, works in English, and accepts international clients.

How Sharon’s approaches translate to online work

Sharon commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and feelings, learn what matters to them, and take small actions toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to break unhelpful patterns.

She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to understand how past relationships affect current reactions. That approach can be useful when someone struggles with trust, closeness or recurring relationship patterns. Sharon sees finding the right approach as a collaboration - she will discuss options with each person and adapt work based on needs, goals and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, check the session options before booking since formats are not specified in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people choose moments that suit their energy - for example a session that avoids being on camera or one that fits a lunch break. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists who use ACT, CBT and attachment-informed methods, can adapt exercises and discussions to work well at a distance.