Sharon Link
Compassionate, practical therapy for life’s challenges
LCSW Missouri
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Sharon
Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, mood disorders, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. She practices from a strengths-based, person-centered stance that emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while teaching practical tools clients can use in daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with adults, children, and adolescents across a broad range of concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and intimacy-related issues. Her style is warm and interactive, focused on collaboration and skill-building rather than directive instruction.
Sharon integrates cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered methods, DBT skills, EMDR, and Jungian-informed perspectives to tailor care to each person’s needs. She also has particular experience addressing addictions, including gambling disorders, and supports people coping with chronic pain, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and other complex life challenges.
Licensed as an LCSW in Missouri (MO LCSW 2020011413) and Wyoming (WY LCSW LCSW-678), she offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Sharon works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and provides sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and learning practical strategies to change behaviors and improve mood. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many of the everyday problems clients bring to therapy. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist offers empathy and helps clients explore their values and goals; this approach can be especially helpful for building self-esteem and coping with life transitions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines acceptance and change strategies and teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, making it useful for intense emotions, impulse-related concerns, and chronic stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharon collaborates with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and may blend techniques over time so the methods match what each person finds most helpful. The process is guided by client priorities and practical outcomes rather than a fixed protocol.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing clients to fit sessions into busy lives, access support from different locations, and choose formats that feel most comfortable. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and practice skills between sessions while working with licensed professionals who tailor treatment to individual needs.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
Missouri, Wyoming
Languages
English