Sharon Facey, BACP

Sharon Facey is a counsellor with 12 years' experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She offers both short-term and longer-term work and aims to create a calm, listening space where people can talk about what matters most to them.

Sharon uses an integrative approach. That means she draws on different ways of working to suit the person in front of her. Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.

She has long experience supporting people affected by domestic and sexual violence, and those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Sharon also helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting strain. Midlife changes and career transitions are included among the areas she supports.

Therapeutic work can include looking at thoughts and behaviours, exploring past relationships, and finding short, practical strategies for immediate problems. Sharon describes the room as one for honest conversation, creativity and emotional expression. She aims to help people uncover what they want and how to move towards it.

Sessions also address complex challenges such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, codependency and attachment difficulties. Throughout, Sharon brings a gentle, person-centred tone and uses different methods to match each person’s needs.

How Sharon’s approaches translate to online therapy

Sharon uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside Psychodynamic ideas. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience, helping them feel heard and supported. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviour patterns and offers practical tools to change them. Psychodynamic work explores how past relationships and early experiences shape present feelings and choices, which can help with repeating patterns such as attachment difficulties.

Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Sharon will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what they hope to change. That discussion guides whether sessions lean more towards practical CBT tools, reflective psychodynamic exploration, or a person-centred tone that prioritises the individual's pace and priorities.

If you plan to use online therapy, please confirm the session formats available before booking because the biography does not specify them. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy around work, family life and travel. Online sessions can make it easier to have shorter check-ins, avoid journey time, and fit appointments into a break at work. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often adapt exercises, journalling and behavioural tasks for remote work so progress can continue between meetings.