Sharon Blanchard, LPC

Sharon Blanchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, parenting, depression, relationship concerns, and identity questions that show up in young adulthood and midlife.

She spent much of her career counseling in K-12 school settings and teaching graduate counseling courses. That background means she often helps parents who are managing the demands of raising challenging children or teens. She also supports young adults facing career and relationship decisions and middle-age adults weighing life changes.

Her common focuses include depression, anxiety, self-esteem, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also addresses blended family issues, communication problems, control issues, separation and divorce matters, and impulsivity. Sharon describes work with intimacy concerns, career questions, and seasonal mood shifts among her areas of interest.

Sharon favors practical conversation and listening carefully to what people describe. She helps clients sort through confusing thoughts and patterns and notice steps that change how they act. She is open to exploring a client's faith and spiritual perspective as much or as little as the client prefers.

Clients can expect straightforward, problem-focused sessions that aim to clarify what is happening and try new ways of responding. Sharon draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and solution-focused ideas in her clinical work.

How Sharon applies therapeutic approaches in online work