Sharon Andrews, PACFA
20 years in practice
Sharon Andrews is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of professional experience.
License and registration
- PACFA
- 23404 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Sharon
Sharon Andrews is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She helps people find small, steady steps toward feeling more capable and motivated.
Sharon works from the view that each person knows their own story best. She aims to create a space where strengths are noticed and used to move through difficult times.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and grounded, with an emphasis on useful strategies rather than jargon. Her approach draws on therapies that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and on techniques for processing past distress. Sharon helps people work through relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep problems and career stresses.
She also supports those dealing with anger, loneliness, forgiveness, guilt and life purpose questions. People meet Sharon for a mix of practical tools and reflective conversation. She uses goal-focused work when needed and encourages experiments between sessions to test new ways of coping.
The focus is on what makes life more manageable day to day. Sharon offers a calm, steady presence for people who want clearer thinking and more energy to meet life’s demands. She invites clients to take the first step and will work collaboratively on the next one.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sharon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-love
Approaches Sharon names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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Online support
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It uses practical exercises to reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful routine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It often includes simple tasks between sessions to change thinking and behaviour. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity; sessions involve guided attention techniques alongside discussion of the memory and its effects.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sharon will discuss goals, preferences and what feels comfortable, then choose or blend methods collaboratively. Clients are invited to try different techniques and give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coaching or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and busy days.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does Sharon help with?
She supports people experiencing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep problems, anger and career stress.
What is Sharon's therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions mix short-term strategies with reflective conversation and between-session experiments to try new approaches.
How long has Sharon practised?
Sharon has 20 years of professional experience working with people on a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with PACFA and practises in Australia.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sharon offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Sharon?
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