About Sharon
Dr. Sharon Belhamel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, and big life changes.
Background and approach
She draws on two decades of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. Her tone is calm and straightforward, aiming to make therapy feel doable for busy lives.
She blends talking, practical skills, and goal-focused work. Sessions focus on what matters now - coping strategies, clearer communication, and daily habits that improve mood and energy.
She also addresses issues like addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, and self-esteem in simple, step-by-step ways. Dr.
Belhamel uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. These tools are used to help people notice unhelpful patterns, change small behaviors, and strengthen emotional awareness.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. She has treated a wide range of concerns over 20 years, including ADHD, bipolar disorder, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and trauma and abuse.
Her practice also supports sexual and gender minorities and people facing adoption, foster care, or aging-related stressors. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and is provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Dr. Belhamel uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as core tools. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing everyday behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with skills from CBT, mixing in ACT exercises for acceptance, or focusing on emotion regulation strategies over time.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this practice. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be useful when video is not possible or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, care responsibilities, and travel schedules while keeping focus on the therapeutic goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English