Sharon Forde Marshall, LMHC

Sharon Forde Marshall is a licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and challenges with self-esteem. Sharon aims to offer respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care as clients take the first steps toward change.

Her work centers on shaping conversations and plans around each person’s needs. She listens for what matters most and adapts goals so progress fits real life. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can try between meetings to build confidence and reduce overwhelming feelings.

Sharon draws on several practical approaches, including acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-based ideas about relationships, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness skills. These methods are used to address family friction, communication problems, and issues like jealousy or infidelity. She also supports people facing life transitions such as divorce, adoption and foster care questions, immigration challenges, caregiver stress, and midlife changes.

Her style is direct but empathetic. She helps clients break larger problems into small, doable actions. Over time that approach aims to improve coping, increase clarity about life purpose, and restore a greater sense of control.

Sharon practices in Florida and works with people in English. She will tailor the plan and next steps to each person’s goals and circumstances.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being pushed around by them. It encourages choosing actions that match personal values and can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life direction concerns.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape trust and closeness. It can help people understand jealousy, communication problems, and recurring relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs to decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process can include mixing techniques from CBT, DBT, ACT, and client-centered methods based on what is most helpful.

Because the original biography does not list specific session formats, please confirm available online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow quicker follow-ups after a difficult conversation. Some formats also let people have shorter check-ins when a full session isn’t needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well in remote conversations, helping progress continue between meetings.