Sharon Forde Marshall

Sharon Forde Marshall is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship or family concerns. Sharon aims to build a respectful, compassionate space where clients can take the first steps toward change.

She uses a mix of practical approaches to suit each person’s needs. Conversations are tailored to the individual and guided by what matters most to them. Common topics she supports include self-esteem, motivation, coping with life changes, and body image concerns.

Sharon also works with issues linked to adoption and foster care, abandonment, caregiver stress, immigration challenges, and conflict like infidelity or communication problems. She helps people sort through control issues, jealousy, forgiveness, and decisions around divorce or separation.

Their work can involve examining patterns from past relationships and building skills for managing strong emotions. Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and mindfulness-based practices. Dialectical behavior ideas are also included where helpful.

Sharon describes therapy as a collaborative process. She and the client shape goals and a plan together. To begin, viewers are asked to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful steps toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. It can help when anxiety, low motivation, or life transitions make decisions feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills for problem solving and mood management. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and improving daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people form different ways of relating and managing emotions in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and help choose methods that fit their needs. That choice is made together and can evolve as therapy progresses.

The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins when time is tight, or remove travel time that otherwise makes attendance difficult. Many people appreciate being able to meet with a licensed professional from different locations and to continue care when routines change.