Sharon (Shonnie) Brown, LMFT

Sharon (Shonnie) Brown is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns such as anger, stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, career strain, ADHD, grief, and life transitions. She also addresses parenting, intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, and abuse and trauma. Sessions are straightforward and practical in tone.

Sharon describes her style as honest and direct. She uses clear tools like goal setting, coping skills, mindfulness exercises, and writing prompts when clients want them. She emphasizes strengthening one’s ability to self-soothe and to develop more self-compassion and self-protection.

Her background includes a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.A. in counseling psychology from JFK University in Orinda, California. She has spent decades working with individuals and couples and has led groups on separation, infidelity, co-parenting education, and social anxiety.

Sharon draws from several clinical approaches in everyday terms. She blends cognitive methods that look at thoughts and behaviors with attachment ideas about early relationships. She also uses client-centered listening and techniques from dialectical and existential perspectives when they fit a client's goals.

In practical work she helps people notice what triggers their anger, practice short-term coping skills, and try small experiments in communication. She often includes writing exercises to process feelings and track progress. Her aim is steady - help clients take one realistic step at a time toward feeling more in control of their reactions.

Sharon is a California-based LMFT who integrates clinical knowledge with life experience. People seeking help for frustration, workplace stress, relationship conflict, or difficulty tolerating painful emotions may find her approach direct and skills-focused.

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