Sharon Belshaw , BACP

Sharon Belshaw is a counsellor with 15 years' experience supporting people through trauma, anxiety, depression and major life changes. She works with concerns such as stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Sharon also helps with career questions, coping with caregiving burdens, and compassion fatigue.

She practices in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sharon has worked in settings that include GP practices, schools, a brain injury centre and the third sector. She has also provided workplace coaching and management consultations alongside clinical work.

Her approach is warm and flexible. Sessions aim to fit around life demands like childcare, caring responsibilities and work. Sharon uses a mix of gentle talking therapy and practical tools so people can manage immediate problems and build longer term coping skills.

Sharon’s training includes person-centred work, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR. She keeps up with ongoing professional development and follows current research to inform her practice.

She has held leadership roles including clinical lead and CEO in an organisation supporting people affected by trauma. Sharon has won a Health and Social Care award and published an article in a national journal. Those roles have also involved coaching staff and advising organisations on wellbeing.

How CBT, EMDR and hypnotherapy work online

CBT focuses on what people think and do. It uses simple exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour that keep stress or low mood going. This can help with anxiety, panic, sleep and mood problems.

EMDR uses guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation while a person recalls distressing memories. The method is used to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories and the symptoms that follow them.

Hypnotherapy offers focused relaxation and suggestion to support changes in habits, reduce anxiety and ease symptoms like sleep or eating difficulties. It is often used alongside talking therapy to reinforce practical goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss options and agree collaboratively which methods fit each person’s needs and goals. That decision takes into account preferences, what has or hasn’t helped before, and current life demands.

Confirm the available session formats before booking because they are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when a full appointment is not needed. It can also make it simpler to involve workplace coaching or brief management consultations when that is useful.