About Sharon
Sharon O'Hara offers calm, practical help for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Sharon works to create straightforward plans that match each person's situation and goals. Sharon is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 33 years of experience.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues such as sex and process addictions, compulsive behaviors, and patterns that undercut confidence and close relationships. Her work also covers communication problems, caregiver stress, and the strain of divorce or separation.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Sharon listens first, then helps people name what matters and try small, manageable steps to change.
She pays attention to feelings like guilt, shame, isolation, and anger while helping clients build clearer choices and healthier habits. Sharon also supports those wrestling with life purpose, midlife crossroads, or men's issues where confidence and identity are affected.
She helps people work through forgiveness, grief, and the lasting effects of trauma. Practical coping skills and steady encouragement are part of the process.
Her approach is flexible and tailored. Sharon helps each person shape a plan that fits their pace, whether the need is short-term problem solving or longer exploration of patterns and meaning.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior, then test small changes to reduce anxiety and compulsive habits. This method is useful for OCD symptoms, process addictions, and persistent worry.Another approach centers on improving communication and intimacy. It involves learning clearer ways to say what you need, practicing new interaction skills, and rebuilding trust and closeness. That work suits people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, or difficulties around non-monogamous arrangements.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then shape a plan together. She adjusts techniques as progress and needs become clearer.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and tracking changes over time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or being on camera is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or keep communication brief and focused. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English