Sharonda Patrick, LCMHC

Sharonda Patrick is a licensed clinician in North Carolina with 17 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults on concerns such as family conflict, self-esteem, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and mood disorders. Sharonda speaks English and focuses on clear, practical steps you can try between sessions.

Her style is direct and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions aim to be conversational and goal-oriented, with concrete tools to manage difficult moments.

Sharonda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape her work. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replace them with more useful alternatives. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, doable changes that move a person toward their goals.

She helps people with a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, postpartum depression, intimacy-related problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include commitment issues, communication problems, forgiveness, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

Getting started involves a short intake and a plan that fits each person's life. Sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, and homework tailored to the individual's pace. Sharonda aims to make therapy practical and supportive while respecting each person's own goals and timing.

Online approaches that focus on skills and solutions

Sharonda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice alternatives that reduce distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and stress management.

She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy, a short-term approach that concentrates on small, concrete changes and steps toward clear goals. This method tends to be helpful when someone wants fast, actionable ideas to move forward with their life or relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their needs, preferences, and goals and then suggest techniques to try. Decisions about which strategies to use are made collaboratively and can change over time as goals shift.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.