Dr. Sharon Young, PA Psychologist PS016165

Dr. Sharon Young greets visitors with a calm, straightforward approach to therapy. She is a Pennsylvania psychologist with a PhD in clinical psychology and 22 years of experience. Her style is warm, collaborative, and client-centered, focusing on listening and understanding each person’s experience.

She helps people who are coping with relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, and addictions. She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and big life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment or family of origin issues, codependency, communication problems, and end-of-life or hospice related concerns.

In sessions she uses practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered methods. She also integrates emotionally-focused and existential perspectives when they fit a person’s needs. The emphasis is on working together to set clear goals and try approaches that make daily life better.

Her background includes work in outpatient community mental health, private practice, inpatient hospital units, a state psychiatric hospital, and a university counseling center. That range shapes how she matches methods to different problems and life stages.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, people follow the site process to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Dr. Young often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work to address practical problems and relationship patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep difficulties. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current intimacy and communication, which can help with trust, codependency, and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps. Clients play an active role in choosing techniques and tracking progress during regular check-ins.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and work in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or being on camera is a concern. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or times when typing is more convenient. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when in-person visits are not an option.