Sharon Crane, LMHC

Sharon Crane is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with ten years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Portuguese and brings a multicultural perspective shaped by growing up in South America and living in the United States. Sharon focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the upheaval that follows major life changes.

Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She listens first and adapts sessions to each person's needs. Sharon uses practical strategies so people can try new ways of coping between appointments. She aims to make therapy feel straightforward and doable for busy lives.

Sharon often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize what each person wants to work on. For people affected by difficult events, she applies trauma-focused ideas to help process and reduce the impact of those memories.

Her background includes work with grief, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and mood disorders. Sharon pays attention to communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and patterns of isolation that can make things worse. She also addresses panic attacks, bipolar concerns, and anger when those show up in sessions.

Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese, and she accepts international clients. Sharon aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that fits their goals and daily routines.

How Sharon's Approaches Work Online

Sharon uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavior changes that can ease anxiety and depression. She pairs that with client-centered care that keeps the focus on each person's goals and priorities. Trauma-focused techniques are applied when past events continue to affect mood, sleep, and daily functioning; these methods support gradual processing and skill-building.

Deciding on a method is collaborative. Sharon works with clients to test different techniques and shifts the plan based on what helps most. She checks in about progress and adjusts goals together so therapy stays practical and relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging are good for brief check-ins or when someone needs flexible timing. These options let people keep up with therapy around work, parenting, or travel while using the approaches that best match their needs and daily routine.