Therapeutic Services
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Unresolved trauma can hold you back, but I believe in your ability to heal and move forward. Emotional pain may feel overwhelming, yet it does not define your future. You are not alone - I am here to support you every step of the way.
Helping you to identify and heal both complex and single-incident traumas, whether from ongoing experiences like childhood abuse or domestic violence, or sudden events such as a loss or accidents. EMDR therapy, a proven trauma treatment, helps process these experiences so you can release their hold and build a life shaped by resilience and hope rather than the past.
EMDR
Brainspotting
Inner Healing
Emotional Abuse
Narcissistic tendencies and or narcissism
Religious / Spiritual Abuse
Childhood trauma / abuse
Catastrophic Events
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Guiding and supporting your healing from a breach of trust which shattered your most intimate relationship.
Healing begins with rebuilding safety, acknowledging and treating your trauma, reconnecting with your reality, and becoming empowered to make informed decisions about your future.
Therapy Provided For:
Individual Support
Groups
Betrayal Trauma Recovery Processes:
Disclosure Preparation (FTD)
Full Therapeutic Disclosure Facilitation (FTD)
Validating Disclosure
Impact Statement
Restitution to the Betrayed Facilitation
Betrayal Trauma Focused Recovery:
Establishing Safety & Security
Boundary Development & Implementation
Reduction in Safety Seeking
Regulation & Mindfulness
Grief & Loss
Emotional Abuse
Inner Healing
Integrity Abuse
Narcissistic Abuse
Depression & Anxiety
Chronic Pain & Reprocessing Pain
Anger & Rage
Empowerment & Post Traumatic Growth
Psychological Assessments:
RAE - Relational Empathy Assessments
SDI- Sexual Dependency Inventory 4.0
SDMI - Sexual Dependency Inventory Assessment
IPAST - Inventory for Partner Anxiety, Stress and Trauma Assessment
PTSI-R - Post-Traumatic Stress Index Revised Assessment
MAWASI - Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index Assessment
ECR - Experience in Close Relationships Assessment
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Supporting recovery of sexual and intimacy-related addictions and co-occurring addictions, caused by compulsive, repetitive behaviors which cause harm to your well-being, relationships, work, and are out of control.
Compulsive Sex & Addiction
Affairs, Infidelity, and / or Cheating in Any Form
Intimacy Anorexia
Gaming & Gambling
AI (Deepfake Technology /Chat Bots)
Porn Issues and or Masturbation
Financial
Inner Child / Inner Healing
Grief & Loss
Sharon specializes in:
Individual Support
Groups
Disclosure Preparation (FTD)
Disclosure Facilitation (FTD)
Validating Disclosure
Impact Statement
Restitution
Recovery
Psychological Assessments:
RAE - Relational Empathy Assessments
SDI - Sexual Dependency Inventory 4.0
SAST - Sexual Addiction Screening Test
SDMI - Sexual Dependency Inventory Assessment
IPAST - Inventory for Partner Anxiety, Stress and Trauma Assessment
PTSI-R - Post-Traumatic Stress Index Revised Assessment
MAWASI - Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index Assessment
ECR - Experience in Close Relationships Assessment
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Sharon is specially trained in providing the following assessments:
RAE - Relational Empathy Assessments
SDI - Sexual Dependency Inventory 4.0
SAST - Sexual Addiction Screening Test
SDMI - Sexual Dependency Inventory Assessment
IPAST - Inventory for Partner Anxiety, Stress and Trauma Assessment
PTSI-R - Post-Traumatic Stress Index Revised Assessment
MAWASI - Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index Assessment
ECR - Experience in Close Relationships Assessment
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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
As an EMDRIA trained EMDR therapist, and Brainspotting Level I and II practitioner, I help clients process and heal the impact of traumatic life experiences in a grounded, compassionate, and evidence-informed way.
My approach supports the nervous system in releasing stored trauma, integrating overwhelming memories, and restoring a sense of safety, clarity and self-connection. Together, we work at the pace of your body and mine are ready for, creating space for lasting healing and renewed resilience.
Provided via Telehealth or in person.
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy offers a powerful pathway for clients whose traumatic experiences have taken root in the body as neuroplastic pain. By helping the bran reinterpret pain signals as safe rather than threatening, PRT supports the unwinding of long-held patterns shaped by stress, fear, or unresolved trauma. This approach gently retrains the nervous system, reduces fear-based pain cycles, and restores a sense of agency and ease in the body. It’s a compassionate, evidence-informed method for healing pain at its source -not just managing symptoms but transforming the mind-body relationship itself.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression can develop or intensify in people who have lived through trauma. Often showing up as chronic worry, hypervigilance, difficulty relaxing, a persistent sense that something bad is about to happen, sadness, frustration, hopelessness, emptiness, difficulty concentrating, aches, pains, changes in weight, negative self-talk, guilt, or unworthiness.
The nervous system may stay stuck in “alert mode,” even long after the original threat has passed.
Therapy offers a space to gently unwind these patterns by helping clients understand their anxiety responses, process unresolved trauma, and build tools for grounding and emotional regulation.
With support, the body and mind can relearn safety, ease anxiety, and release depression creating room for steadier, more empowered living.
See specific videos and information about therapies below:
Trauma Interventions
EMDR utilizes natural healing of the brain by mimicking the back-and-forth eye movements that occur during REM sleep while at the same time processing the frozen, unprocessed, and/or fragmented memories. This bilateral stimulation allows the memories to move from the limbic system and through the cortex to allow language to be added to the memory. This movement desensitizes the high levels of distress and allows the memory to be processed and stored in a story form in our brain.
Effective Treating
PTSD
Betrayal Trauma
Anxiety
Depression
Phobias
Grief and Loss
Anger
Addictions
Distressing feelings (inadequacy, insignificance, inferiority)
Abandonment
Abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, and integrity)
Brainspotting therapy is a non-verbal, non-invasive form of therapy that focuses on the physical body’s response to trauma and emotional pain. Focusing on specific spots in your visual field related to your emotional pain, your brain can process and release the emotional pain stored inside your body. It has been found to be especially effective for those with PTSD or anxiety and depression. It is a gentle and non-invasive approach that does not require talking about past experiences or reliving painful memories.
Betrayal Trauma
You’ve just discovered a history of extensive porn sites visited and or messages on your partner’s phone—conversations with strangers, boundary‑crossing exchanges, even explicit photos. In an instant, everything feels shaken. You’re overwhelmed, devastated, heartbroken, stunned, hurt, and unsure what to believe.
You may fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or flop! Your reaction isn’t a flaw; it’s the natural response of someone who cares deeply and has been committed to the relationship.
As an APSATS Certified Clinical Partner Specialist, Sharon supports you as you face this violent rupture. Your situation may involve pornography, secret messaging, or an affair. Still, the core experience is the same: you’ve been betrayed, and the trust you relied on has been shattered - broken - destroyed.
Sharon will never pressure you to trust again simply because the behavior has stopped.
She works from the principle that transparency + consistent honesty + safety = trust. Betrayal recovery begins with understanding what happened, creating the safety you need through boundaries, and connecting with your values.
When you observe consistent, honest, and positive behaviors over time, not just their words, trust can slowly be rebuilt.
Sex, love, and porn addiction are not really about sex.
It is really about the inability to manage your nervous system and emotions that destabilize you.
You just finished doing something you swore you would never do again! Even when you manage to stop for a while, the urges eventually return, stronger, louder, and harder to resist. You find yourself slipping back into old patterns. It’s happened so many times that you are starting to lose hope that freedom is even possible. Shame and despair feel like they have you in a chokehold. You look at the people around you and convince yourself that no one else is as broken or disgusting as you feel. You tell yourself that no one would or could ever love me if they knew what I'm doing. You want help, you are tired of living this secretive life, you may be ashamed of what you are doing and who you are hurting, you may have even thought about or tried to get help in the past, but a part of you is beginning to believe that nothing can help.
Do I Really Have A Sex, Love, and/or Porn Addiction?
Compulsive & Addictive Behaviors
Does This Resonate?
Picture a computer running multiple programs at once. Between the system overload and the quick fix you use to stop the lag, which one better represents your compulsive or addictive behaviors? It may seem counterintuitive, but the quick fix represents the compulsive behavior, while the overload represents your nervous system.
Something happens that overwhelms your internal “processing” and slows you down - the stress, fear, loneliness, boredom - and your system starts to slow, glitch, or freeze. Instinctively, you reach for something to relieve the pressure.
Imagine this: life hits you with stress, from family, an intimate relationship, school, work, or anything else. That stress is the overload building inside your nervous system. Your internal processor heats up, your thoughts start spinning, and you feel the strain. You turn to sexual behaviors or pornography as your quick fix - like force-quitting a program or rebooting the machine - to temporarily reduce the discomfort and regain a sense of control. The overload can come from any difficult emotion: anxiety, sadness, rejection, boredom, emptiness, frustration, loneliness, or even excitement.
Sobriety is the process of replacing the old quick fix - the one that keeps corrupting files and slowing your system - with healthier tools that help your system run smoothly without violating your values or causing more damage.
Recovery goes deeper: it is about understanding what keeps overloading your system in the first place, and learning how to navigate your internal world so you don’t feel forced into an unhealthy escape.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Pain can be REAL even when the cause is neural, not structural.
We are not saying your pain is in your head, or you should ignore your symptoms, nor is this a replacement for medical evaluation. It is about understanding how the brain and body interact - using that knowledge to reduce your suffering.
Chronic pain can persist when the brain learns to interpret normal sensations as threatening. Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) helps you understand this process in a compassionate, non-invalidating way. Sharon is specifically trained to guide you through reducing the fear-based response that keeps pain signals active. Together, you’ll work on teaching your brain to shift out of protection mode so it can recalibrate, heal, and respond to your body with greater accuracy and ease.
Who can PRT help?
Chronic pain with no clear structural cause
Pain that persists after an injury that has healed
Pain that worsens with stress or emotional triggers
A desire for a mind-body approach supported by clinical research
Relational trauma learned somatic pain
Mary’s Betrayal Chronic Pain Story:
For years, Mary lived with the unease of not knowing that her partner had a compulsive behavioral addiction and what he was doing behind the scenes. The secrecy, the confusion, and the constant sense of danger settled into her body long before she learned the truth. By the time the betrayal surfaced, her hips, back, and shoulders had been carrying the weight of it for years.
Mary thought her body was failing her. She didn’t realize it was protecting her.
When she began healing, she turned to PRT to help her understand how chronic pain can develop when the nervous system stays in threat mode for too long - something betrayal trauma often creates. Instead of bracing against the pain, she learned to approach it with curiosity and reassurance. Instead of fearing every sensation, she learned to teach her body that she was safe now.
Little by little, her pain softened. She was undoing years and years of pain pathways learned. Her body began to release what it had been holding.
PRT didn’t erase the betrayal, but it helped her reclaim her sense of safety, reconnect with her body, and move forward with more ease and clarity.
Bill’s Car Accident Story:
Fifteen years ago, Bill was in a serious car accident. The bone healed, the physical therapy ended, and the doctors told him he was fully recovered. Except for one thing….the pain never really left. It lingered, an ache that showed up when he walked too far, stood too long, or sometimes for no clear reason at all.
Bill assumed this was simply the price he had to pay for an old injury.
During therapy, he learned about PRT. Sometimes the brain continues to send pain signals long after the body has healed. His nervous system had learned to associate his leg with danger, and it kept sounding the alarm even though the threat was gone.
When Bill began PRT, he discovered a new way of understanding his pain. Instead of treating every sensation as a sign of damage, he learned to approach the pain with curiosity and reassurance.
During PRT, he learned to reframe old beliefs, calm his fear response, recognize triggers, and teach his nervous system that movement and sensation were no longer dangerous.
PRT did not erase Bill’s past.
It helped Bill retrain the neural pathways that kept the pain alive - giving him back a sense of ease he thought he had lost forever!