About Sharon
Sharon Kuhlmann uses practical therapeutic approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She brings two decades of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions.
Background and approach
Sharon holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential in Minnesota and aims to make starting therapy as simple as possible for worried parents and busy adults. Sharon listens carefully and offers clear feedback rather than long lectures.
She blends hands-on tools and conversation to build coping skills, improve sleep, and ease anxiety. Sessions often include short exercises people can try between meetings to notice progress in everyday life.
Her background includes prior work as a registered nurse, which shaped her understanding of how stress and emotions show up in the body. That experience informs practical strategies for calming the nervous system and managing physical symptoms of anxiety and chronic stress.
Sharon also helps people address compassion fatigue and career-related strain. When trauma or upsetting memories are present, Sharon uses approaches that focus on processing those experiences safely and reducing their hold on daily life.
She also supports people working on intimacy, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and attention-related concerns like ADHD. Her style is direct, patient, and goal-focused.
Sharon invites clients to talk about what they most want to change and to set small, reachable goals. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where progress comes from trying new skills and checking what works.
Scheduling and format options are discussed up front so therapy fits into busy routines.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Sharon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address anxiety, trauma, and related symptoms. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can reduce worry and improve sleep. EMDR works with how the brain stores distressing memories and can ease the intensity of traumatic reactions when done step by step.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice stress in the body and calm their reactions. These approaches are presented in clear, collaborative ways so clients and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful for current goals.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Messaging and live chat allow brief check-ins, homework exchanges, and ongoing skill practice between sessions, which can make therapy more practical for busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English