Sharon Chege
I am a licensed clinician with over 20years of social work experience across clinical and systems-based settings. I support adults navigating stress, burnout, anxiety, caregiving responsibilities, work-life challenges, and life transitions. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in real-world understanding of the emotional and systemic pressures many adults face today. I work especially well with caregivers, helping professionals, adults balancing multiple responsibilities, and individuals experiencing emotional exhaustion or overwhelm. I integrate supportive therapy, CBT, DBT-informed strategies, motivational interviewing, and strengths-based approaches to help clients build healthier coping patterns, emotional resilience, and greater balance. My strength is helping adults manage complex life stressors, caregiver burnout, emotional overwhelm, and work-family pressures in a practical and supportive way.”
First session
Your first session is an opportunity and safe space for you to share .man’s for us to get to know each other . We’ll explore your concerns, current stressors, what support means most meaningful to you and your goals at a pace that feels comfortable for you. My goal is to create a supportive, nonjudgmental environment where you feel heard, respected, and understood. We will work collaboratively to begin developing goals that are realistic, supportive, and aligned with your values .
Strengths
I speak 4 languages and I have experienced leaving and working with people from different cultural backgrounds and beliefs. I am deeply committed to making sure my clients feel seen , known and heard . My clients appreciate my warm , compassionate, collaborative, calm and practical approach. I integrate strengths-based therapy, CBT, motivational interviewing, and DBT-informed skills to support meaningful and sustainable change. I help overwhelmed adults and caregivers manage stress, burnout, anxiety, and life transitions.
Ideal clients
My ideal client population is Working with older adults and their caregivers dealing with the complexity of changes in health, family dynamics, grief, loss of independence, isolation and loneliness. I also enjoy working with parents who are experiencing the challenges of balancing work , family and career / caregiving and helping them navigate without loosing themselves in the different roles .
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Worked with older adults experiencing depression related to loss, illness, retirement or loneliness, anxiety about health decline, falls, finances, caregiving, hopelessness. Helping older adults with practical support intergrated with practical skills like increasing coping skills through behavior activation , thought tracking , coping with chronic illness, grief processing and support .
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Working with older adults experiencing mental health challenges, loss , pain by using DBT skills like distress tolerance ( for pain, hospitalizations, mobility decline, waiting for medical outcome) radical acceptance of physical limitation, family estrangement, accepting chronic illness), emotional regulation( naming their emotions, identity triggers ), interpersonal effectiveness ( during family conflict, boundary setting,assentiveness with caregivers)
Motivational Interviewing
Working with adults and caregivers experiencing work/ conflict, burnout , depression, anxiety by using open ended questions to explore emotions, ambivalence, values. Using affirmations to affirm strength, resilience and values and also using reflective listening .
Location
Virtual sessions
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- OhioLicense I.2607797