Sharon Blanchard , LPC

Sharon Blanchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and life transitions. Sharon takes a straightforward, listening-first approach and respects each person's beliefs and values.

She has spent much of her career in K-12 school settings and teaching counseling at the graduate level, and she draws on that background when working with parents, young adults, and midlife clients. Sharon helps parents manage the strain of raising challenging children and supports young adults who are figuring out work, relationships, and identity.

Sessions tend to be conversational and practical. Sharon listens closely, helps sort through the most pressing issues, and assists people in finding new perspectives. She can include faith and spiritual concerns when a client wants to bring those into the work.

Sharon works with a range of concerns beyond mood symptoms, including relationship and communication problems, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, and life purpose. She also addresses specific challenges such as postpartum depression, panic attacks, seasonal mood shifts, and ADHD-related difficulties.

People who choose her often want a calm, experienced counselor who will help them sift through competing priorities and start making small changes. Sharon aims to tailor each session to an individual's needs and to help people move toward clearer choices and better coping.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. The therapist reflects what a person shares and helps them explore choices and values, which can be useful for relationship, identity, and parenting questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It uses specific exercises and practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and address mood problems by changing how someone thinks and acts.

Mindfulness Therapy encourages gentle attention to the present moment and simple breathing or awareness practices. This can help with stress, rumination, and emotional regulation during busy or overwhelming times.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sharon collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She may combine listening-focused, cognitive, and mindfulness techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, childcare, or daily life and to keep continuity when schedules change.