Sharon Gunnell, NCPS

Sharon Gunnell offers warm, compassionate counselling that helps people regain balance and build resilience for the future. She creates a supportive environment where clients can explore difficult thoughts and feelings and practice new ways of responding to life’s challenges.

Sharon works in a person-centred, pluralistic way - which means she adapts her approach to fit each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. She combines that collaborative style with techniques drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other approaches to help clients develop greater psychological flexibility and clarity about their values.

She supports people facing anxiety, bereavement, loss of confidence, midlife transitions, chronic illness and family difficulties, and helps those who want to feel more like themselves again after difficult events. Talking through feelings and understanding where they come from is central to her work, alongside practising practical strategies to manage distress.

Sharon holds the NCPS credential, a professional counselling qualification, and practises from the United Kingdom. With three years of experience, she aims to offer a calm, respectful space for reflection and change and encourages contact to arrange an initial session.

Therapeutic Approaches and Flexible Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them and to take action toward what matters most. It is often helpful for anxiety, stress, and coping with long-term life challenges because it focuses on values-based action alongside psychological flexibility.

Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a respectful, non-judgemental relationship in which the therapist offers empathy and genuine understanding. This approach supports people working through grief, loss of confidence, relationship difficulties, and transitions by helping them feel heard and accepted as they explore their own solutions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sharon works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and circumstances, and she will adapt techniques as progress develops.

Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access from home. Whether meeting by video call, speaking by phone, using live chat, or exchanging messages, online sessions make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity of care regardless of location within the therapist's service area.