- Direct and heart-centered
- Writing for healing
- Mindfulness and skills
About Sharon
Sharon (Shonnie) Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing depression, stress, anxiety, relationship strains, and major life transitions. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take one practical step at a time.
Shonnie draws on multiple methods to meet people where they are. She combines cognitive techniques that address unhelpful thoughts with attachment-focused ideas about how early relationships shape current reactions. Mindfulness, goal-setting, and writing exercises are often used when helpful. Sessions tend to be direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on building a trusting working relationship.
Her background includes a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in counseling psychology from JFK University in Orinda, California. She has worked with individuals and couples and led groups on separation, divorce, infidelity, co-parenting, and social anxiety. That variety informs how she adapts tools to different problems.
Common themes she addresses include difficulty self-soothing, low self-compassion, and trouble tolerating painful feelings. Practical tools such as coping skills, mindfulness exercises, and writing assignments are offered when appropriate. She also uses goal setting to help people track small changes and progress.
Shonnie emphasizes steady, realistic progress rather than overnight fixes. She encourages people to try small, manageable steps and to use writing as a way to process emotions when it feels useful. To begin, clients are asked to complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Shonnie draws on multiple methods to meet people where they are. She combines cognitive techniques that address unhelpful thoughts with attachment-focused ideas about how early relationships shape current reactions. Mindfulness, goal-setting, and writing exercises are often used when helpful. Sessions tend to be direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on building a trusting working relationship.
Her background includes a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in counseling psychology from JFK University in Orinda, California. She has worked with individuals and couples and led groups on separation, divorce, infidelity, co-parenting, and social anxiety. That variety informs how she adapts tools to different problems.
Common themes she addresses include difficulty self-soothing, low self-compassion, and trouble tolerating painful feelings. Practical tools such as coping skills, mindfulness exercises, and writing assignments are offered when appropriate. She also uses goal setting to help people track small changes and progress.
Shonnie emphasizes steady, realistic progress rather than overnight fixes. She encourages people to try small, manageable steps and to use writing as a way to process emotions when it feels useful. To begin, clients are asked to complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
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