Sharla "Charlie" Harrison, LPC

Sharla "Charlie" Harrison is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client right now.

She uses clear, hands-on methods to address relationship strain, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and body image. Conversations are paced to match each person's needs and goals.

Sharla blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered listening and emotionally-focused work to reduce distress and improve communication. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are included when they fit the client’s situation. The goal is to build skills that help in daily life.

In sessions she helps people make sense of past hurts and learn concrete ways to cope. She emphasizes improving self-esteem, setting boundaries, and repairing or clarifying relationships. Therapy often includes small experiments between sessions to test new ways of relating and thinking.

Sharla practices in Missouri and speaks English. She works with adults across a range of life stages and brings steady experience to complex concerns like domestic violence, dissociation, caregiving stress, and recovery from separation. Her style is attentive, patient, and focused on practical progress.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Sharla often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT work online can include tracking moods, trying short experiments between sessions, and practicing new coping skills in daily life.

She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. That approach supports emotional processing and helps people feel heard during video or phone sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sharla collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts methods over time based on what is working and what the client prefers.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and working through emotional material. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or low-bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief support, homework review, or ongoing check-ins between sessions.