Sharon Brooks-Esprit, BACP

Sharon Brooks-Esprit is a BACP-accredited counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of professional experience. She draws on a person-centred foundation to create a calm, empathic, non-judgemental space in which clients lead the pace and direction of their work. Her training includes a Master’s degree in Person-Centred Counselling and advanced certificates in the same approach, and she also holds an EMDR qualification for trauma work and a range of certificates in approaches such as DBT-informed skills, personality disorder awareness, and life coaching. BACP accreditation indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and a recognised professional standard in the field.

Sharon has substantial experience across community and clinical settings and continues to work with people experiencing depression and anxiety through NHS referral routes. She works part-time with young people in further education and supports adults facing a wide range of challenges, including stress, grief, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting and fatherhood concerns, intimacy and sexual issues, career transitions, and coping with major life changes. She also offers focused support around codependency, separation and divorce, multicultural concerns, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics.

Her style is warm, open and often gently upbeat, aiming to strengthen each person’s confidence while encouraging personal growth. Sharon uses person-centred principles alongside practical techniques from CBT, mindfulness and compassion-focused approaches where helpful, and she is training in supervision to support other therapists and care professionals. Her goal is to help clients realise the insights that enable meaningful forward movement, without directing their choices.

Person-Centred and Trauma-Informed Online Support

Sharon primarily works from a client-centred perspective, which means sessions are guided by each person’s own priorities and pace. This approach focuses on empathic listening, respect and unconditional positive regard to help clients explore feelings, build self-understanding, and find their own solutions; it is well suited to issues such as low self-esteem, relationship conflicts and life transitions.

She also draws on EMDR-informed skills for trauma-related work. EMDR involves structured processing techniques that can reduce distress linked to traumatic memories and support recovery from abuse, loss or other traumatic events. In addition, Sharon can integrate practical elements from cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness-informed work when clients would benefit from coping strategies or symptom-focused tools.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Sharon will work with each client to identify goals, test what feels most helpful, and adapt methods over time based on needs and preferences. Registered professionals and therapists often combine approaches in this way to tailor care.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers greater flexibility - clients can schedule sessions around work, family or mobility needs and access ongoing support from home or other convenient locations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.