Sharon Blanchard, LPC

Sharon Blanchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with thirty years of experience. She meets people where they are and listens first. Her work focuses on common pressures like anxiety, depression, parenting stress, relationship strain, and life transitions such as midlife crisis. Sharon spent much of her career counseling in K-12 school settings and teaching graduate-level counseling courses. She has also worked with individuals across the lifespan, including young adults starting careers and middle-age adults facing major decisions. Her background gives her a practical sense of challenges parents and caregivers often face. In sessions she prioritizes listening and helping clients sort through what feels overwhelming. Sharon uses conversational approaches to identify patterns that keep people stuck and to find small changes that can improve daily life. She also invites clients to bring in personal values, including faith, as much or as little as they wish. Her toolkit draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. That mix helps with mood concerns, stress, impulsivity, and relational issues. Sharon describes counseling as a collaborative process where new insights lead to clearer choices. People come to her for help with parenting challenging children, navigating blended family dynamics, coping with grief, and exploring life purpose. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support as clients work toward clearer goals and a calmer routine.

How Sharon’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Sharon uses client-centered therapy to center each person’s goals and values. That means sessions focus on what matters to the client, with the therapist asking questions and reflecting back what she hears to help clarify concerns. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT offers practical exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage panic symptoms, or change unhelpful habits. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then adapt techniques from these approaches. The process is collaborative, and adjustments are made over time based on what helps most. Confirm which session formats are available before booking, as current options are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people continue steady care when life or work schedules change. Ask about the exact session options when you complete the matching questionnaire so you can choose what fits your routine.