SHARON OVERFELT – MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
(Pronounced SharonE)
Life can be tough, exhausting, and difficult to navigate, and many people experience Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Relationship difficulties and Trauma.
I am committed to helping individuals with these challenges. Together we will identify the causes, and create a path to help you improve your life.
What can my clients expect from me?
I have been known to ‘meet you’ where you are on this journey called life. Some things I have offered my clients are:
Life skills – Anxiety, fears and confusion can be real life road blocks to inner peace. Something as simple as creating a budget can restore order, immensely reduce anxiety and cultivate a sense of accomplishment in self. I’ve taught clients how to create a budget and maintain it. There many other skills you can learn to help you work smarter, not harder.
Build interpersonal skills – conversations, communications, relationships can be awkward and difficult: learning how to navigate this muddy realm is part of my work. Helping clients understand alternative points of view, via play and fun, can be a real mind opener to connecting well with others. So we role play together ?
Procrastination can be paralyzing ! overcoming fears and springing into action is not a small task. I’ve helped clients start a conversation with an accountability partner to help them and encourage them throughout their goals. And guess what – that works !! Clients report back overcoming huge obstacles in a matter of weeks.
Stuck in a rut? Unsure why this keeps happening to you? You’re not alone.. you just need some help understanding your own difficult cycle. And when you are aware of it – you have the power to intervene and change it. Now you’re no longer a victim of circumstance but a co-creator in your own life. Who doesn’t want that?
Break free from the Cycle: Changing thought patterns and breaking habits that no longer serve us. Here’s an example: we cultivate behaviors that we think society approves of and are helpful such as ‘Endurance – never quitting’. That sounds really good, doesn’t it? Guess what: anything to extreme is not beneficial and can keep us trapped years on years in relationships and commitments, both personal and professional, that are detrimental to our happiness. The opposite is also true, quitting everything at the slightest adversity, is also not serving us well. Learning about your specific extreme habits and behaviors is key to unlock Stuckness. Through mindfulness, psychodrama and ETT we together learn your specific blue print of thoughts, core beliefs and behaviors, and together we create a new more suitable blue print to help you thrive and love life again.
Finding the right resources for you: we are all so different, complex and beautifully intricate. What works for one person is not a cookie cutter answer for another. Let’s help you navigate this abundance of resources and find the right ones for you ?
Be your own CPA – Build you up: who could use support, encouragement and a boost of self-esteem? Probably all of us !! Allow yourself that gift. Sometimes it starts with your therapist and then unfolds into other areas of your life. Support and encouragement are not ‘nice to have’. They are critical to help each of us feel empowered, valued and able to live life fully. How many of us live our lives in the tyranny of the inner critic? Let’s help you build yourself up so you are so longer a prisoner of difficult and very inaccurate way of thinking. I often say: be your own CPA, be accurate about who you are, don’t just exaggerate deficits; learn to also identify and acknowledge your gifts, resources and value. When you are balanced, then you can learn from your difficulties and turn them into resources. Be a good and accurate CPA for yourself !
Sit and cry together: sometimes all we need is someone to listen to our words and cry with us. Not all is in our control and life brings difficult events and experiences. What can ease the suffering is having someone to walk beside us, or sit with while tears fall down. I’m here.
If any of those resonated, come see me and we can both navigate this jungle… or journey together ?