Sharon-Lin Harwood, HCPC

Sharon-Lin Harwood is a clinical psychologist with three years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her background includes supporting healthcare professionals facing compassion fatigue and post-traumatic stress. Sharon-Lin speaks English and sees people through online formats only. Sharon-Lin takes a trauma-informed approach. She pays attention to what has happened to someone rather than framing them as 'broken'. Sessions aim to be practical and direct, with room to go at a pace that feels manageable. Her work often centres on anxiety, social anxiety and phobia. She also helps people who care for others and who are feeling overwhelmed by that role. For healthcare staff she addresses moral injury, compassion fatigue and post-traumatic stress concerns. Sharon-Lin commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to look at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. She also draws on compassion-focused ideas to help people respond to themselves with less self-criticism. Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing approaches are used when trauma memories need focused processing. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging. Appointments run through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules according to the therapist's availability.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Sharon-Lin commonly uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. This approach is often used for anxiety and social phobia because it breaks problems into clear, manageable steps.

She also uses compassion-focused ideas to reduce harsh self-criticism and build kinder self-responses. That can be helpful for people struggling with guilt, shame or compassion fatigue. For trauma that continues to cause distress, she applies eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing style work to help process painful memories in a focused way.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the person's needs, goals and comfort level. Clients and therapist review progress together and adjust the plan as needed.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging offers practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life.