Tracy Sharman

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• CBT and attachment

About Tracy

Tracy Sharman helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression and related difficulties using a conversational, client-centred approach. She holds BACP registration and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Tracy offers straightforward, paced sessions where people can talk through immediate worries and longer term patterns.

She focuses on practical coping and understanding where problems come from. That may include looking at attachment patterns, thinking habits, and emotional responses that keep difficulties alive. Tracy uses elements from cognitive behavioural work to spot unhelpful thinking, and draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to look at relationships and emotional needs.

Sessions are calm and focused on what a person wants to change. Work can cover crisis coping, managing anxiety, responses after abuse, mood changes, addictive patterns, and life transitions such as career shifts or health concerns. She also addresses issues linked to ADHD, attachment difficulties, body image and communication problems.

Tracy aims to help people build clear, manageable strategies as well as increase understanding of past experiences that affect current feelings. She often combines skills practice with reflective conversation so people can test changes between sessions.

Her background includes practice in the UK over three years and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. Sessions are delivered in English and arranged through the site's booking process.

How her approaches are used in online sessions

Tracy blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural and attachment-based approaches. Client-centred work focuses on the person's own priorities and pace, giving time for thoughts and feelings to be talked through. Cognitive behavioural work involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioural experiments to test different ways of coping. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in relationships and how early experiences affect current emotional responses.

Choosing the most useful approach is a shared task. Tracy will discuss goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that suit the person's needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether more skills practice, reflective conversation, or a mix of both is best.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around school, work or medical appointments because it can reduce travel and allow sessions during practical breaks. It also lets people use quieter surroundings, choose whether to be on camera, and practise skills at home between meetings, so therapy can be integrated into everyday life.

Topics Tracy lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Depression
• Addictions
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Co-morbidity
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Mood disorders
• Narcissism
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Paranoia
• Personality disorders
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Post-traumatic stress
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Visually impaired
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Existential Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy

Questions about Tracy

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are among the main concerns she helps people address using practical techniques and conversation.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses client-centred work with elements from cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment-based approaches and emotionally-focused therapy.

How much experience does she have?

Tracy has three years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom.

Is she affiliated with any professional body?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.

In which languages can I have sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can I have sessions from outside the UK?

She does not take clients outside the United Kingdom.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I arrange a first session?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.