Sharon Facey, BACP

Sharon Facey is a seasoned therapist based in the United Kingdom who combines counselling and coaching to support people through a wide range of life challenges. She brings 12 years of professional experience and holds membership of the BACP, the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, which reflects her commitment to recognised professional standards.

Sharon offers both short-term and longer-term work and uses an integrative approach that draws on client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral ideas, psychodynamic perspectives, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused methods. This blend allows her to tailor sessions to individual needs, weaving together different tools to address the emotions, patterns, and practical barriers that clients bring.

She has worked as a violence against women and girls practitioner supporting women and girls affected by domestic and sexual violence, as well as those coping with poor mental health and child sexual abuse. Sharon also supports people seeking help with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy and relationship concerns, self-esteem, depression, parenting, career matters, ADHD, and a range of other life adjustments.

By attending to mind, body, spirit, and life experience, Sharon aims to create a compassionate space for exploration, dialogue, and practical change. She collaborates with each person to clarify goals such as improving workplace performance, strengthening relationships, or finding greater satisfaction at home, and works sensitively to help move toward those aims.

Approach-led online therapy for trauma and life change

Sharon works with a client-centered approach that places the person's experience at the heart of the work - the therapist follows the client's lead, listens deeply, and helps clarify goals so people feel heard and understood. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, and when someone needs a compassionate space to explore personal values and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. In online sessions Sharon uses CBT techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop practical strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, and everyday stressors.

Trauma-focused work addresses the specific impacts of traumatic experiences by stabilising distress, processing difficult memories at an appropriate pace, and building coping resources. This method supports recovery from abuse, assault, and other traumatic events by offering structure and gradual integration of painful experiences.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sharon collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adapts the work as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - so people can choose the format that fits their schedule and comfort. This flexibility makes it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.