About Sharon
Sharon Dockery helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with depression, life changes, addictions, grief, trauma, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
Sharon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in South Carolina with ten years of experience. She aims to make sessions feel straightforward and nonjudgmental.
Sharon focuses on listening first and helping people name what matters to them. Conversations move at a practical pace so clients leave with clear next steps they can try between sessions.
Sharon draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address patterns that cause pain. She works with people on communication, managing impulsivity, and rebuilding trust after hurt.
Practical tools and simple exercises are offered to help with mood, sleep, and daily routines. She also helps people sort through family of origin issues, blended family challenges, and parenting stress.
Topics like codependency, jealousy, control issues, and forgiveness are discussed in plain language. Sharon pays attention to how past wounds affect present choices and relationships.
Sessions cover big decisions too, such as career direction, divorce and separation, and finding life purpose. Sharon encourages small experiments that test new ways of relating and coping.
Her approach is steady and focused on what people can change now. Sharon invites people to take a first step by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a session.
She works by appointment and offers several online formats to fit different needs.
How Sharon Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people learn new ways of coping and relating. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with simpler, more helpful habits. This helps with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and sleep routines. Another approach centers on improving communication and emotional awareness so people can handle conflict and intimacy-related issues more directly and calmly.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Sharon will talk with each person about their goals, everyday routines, and what feels most achievable. Together they choose techniques and small experiments that match the person’s needs and preferences, and then adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel most like in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick reflections, brief updates, or when messaging fits better into a workday. These options aim to give flexibility while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English