Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Sharon works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Sharon
Dr. Sharon Belhamel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people handle strong emotions and stressful life moments. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anger, manage anxiety, and move through depression.
Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at helping people find clearer thinking and calmer responses. With 20 years of clinical experience in Georgia, Dr. Belhamel blends talk therapy with a broad perspective on well-being.
She listens to what matters most to each person and then works with them to set clear, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings to cope with intense feelings and daily pressures. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, from relationship strain and career stress to grief, trauma, and addiction. She also supports people facing identity and intimacy questions, caregiver burnout, chronic health challenges, and issues related to attention and mood.
The aim is to address immediate problems while building longer-term resilience. Dr. Belhamel draws on therapies that focus on thoughts, emotions, and meaningful action.
She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, try new ways of relating, and commit to values that guide change. Conversations are collaborative, and progress is tracked in simple, concrete steps. People can expect a calm, practical approach that balances emotion-focused work with skills training.
Dr. Belhamel works in English and accepts international clients for remote sessions. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and varied needs.
What Sharon works with
Everything Sharon lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Sharon's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharon lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps despite difficult emotions. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing anger by shifting focus to meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape emotional responses and can help people understand and change patterns that affect intimacy and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and everyday challenges, and together they will choose which methods to try. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted if something isn’t working or if priorities change over time.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversational work and practicing new communication skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit a workday, caregiving schedule, or travel.
Questions people ask about Sharon
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship strain, career challenges, grief, trauma, addictions, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, mixing talk therapy with skill-building so people leave sessions with tools to try between meetings.
What is her clinical background?
She has 20 years of experience working as a therapist and brings a broad, holistic viewpoint to care.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LMFT credential and provides services from Georgia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is pricing handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session based on therapist availability.