Sharon (Shonnie) Brown

Sharon (Shonnie) Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, career crossroads, and life transitions. Sharon writes plainly and directly in sessions and uses practical tools that people can try between meetings.

Sharon trained at the University of California, Berkeley for her bachelor’s degree and earned a master’s in counseling psychology from JFK University. She has worked primarily with individuals and couples and led groups on separation, divorce, infidelity, co-parenting, and social anxiety. Her practice in California draws on long experience with common life stresses and transitions.

Her style is honest, direct, and compassionate. She emphasizes learning to soothe strong feelings and to develop self-compassion and self-protection. Sessions often include goal setting, coping skills, mindfulness exercises, and writing tasks when clients want them.

Sharon uses several clinical approaches to match what each person needs. These include mindfulness practices, attachment-informed ideas about relationships, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy. She also integrates work on childhood trauma when it is relevant to a person’s concerns.

People come to Sharon for help with anger, intimacy difficulties, sleeping problems, ADHD-related challenges, control issues, and money or career stress. She frames change as a series of small steps and supports clients in building optimism and gratitude as part of daily life.

How Sharon Uses Mindfulness and Attachment Ideas Online

Sharon often draws on mindfulness and attachment-based ideas to guide online work. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without judging them. It can help with anxiety, stress, sleep issues, and building self-soothing skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current closeness and trust. It can be useful for relationship problems, intimacy concerns, and issues rooted in family of origin dynamics.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what feels useful.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use practices like mindfulness exercises and writing tasks between sessions to continue progress in everyday life.