- Years in practice
- 7
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Sharan
Sharan Thiara is a counsellor who aims to make seeking help feel straightforward. She writes plainly and listens carefully so people can say what matters most. Her approach is calm and non-judgemental, and she focuses on making things feel more manageable for clients under stress.
Sharan has seven years of practice. She works with issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and addictions. Parenting and relationship concerns are also part of her listed focus areas.
Background and approach
Sharan holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded here as BACP. Her style combines humanistic, integrative and attachment-aware ways of working. That means she draws from several approaches to meet a person’s needs rather than following a single method.
Sessions tend to be steady and grounded, with attention to feelings and practical steps someone can try between meetings. Sharan emphasises empathy and acceptance in sessions. She invites people to talk about hard memories or current struggles without fear of being judged.
The aim is to help clients build new coping habits and clearer ways of relating to themselves and others. She also supports people dealing with grief, sleep and eating concerns, anger and self-esteem issues. Practical tools from cognitive and behavioural approaches are used alongside emotion-focused work.
This mix is chosen to suit each person’s goals and situation.
What Sharan works with
Everything Sharan lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sharan helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them drive every choice. It emphasises values-led action and simple exercises to reduce avoidance and build a life that matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which is often useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relational patterns formed early in life and helps people understand and change how they relate to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit each person’s needs. That way sessions are a collaborative process where techniques are adapted over time rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel and help maintain continuity of care across locations.
Questions people ask about Sharan
What sorts of issues does Sharan address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and addictions, plus parenting, grief, sleep and eating problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is calm and humanistic with an integrative outlook. Sessions mix emotion-focused listening with practical coping strategies.
What is her background and experience?
Sharan has seven years of practice experience and has completed over 100 hours of client work.
What credentials and country are listed for this counsellor?
She is recorded with BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sharan offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as session formats.
How are sessions billed and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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