Sharon Link, LCSW
Licensed in Missouri · 25 years in practice
Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and addiction.
License and registration
- LCSW, Missouri
- 2020011413 · expires September 2027
- LCSW, Wyoming
- LCSW-678 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1720319361 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
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About Sharon
Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and addiction. She brings 25 years of experience and a calm, interactive manner to sessions. Her style is warm and straightforward, and she aims to give practical tools people can use between meetings.
Sharon centers the work on each person's goals. She listens closely, offers evidence-based techniques, and teaches skills for coping with intense feelings and daily challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions often include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindful skills to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, emotional abuse, and complex mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She has supported people facing grief, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and struggles with addiction, including gambling.
Sharon also addresses attachment and abandonment issues and difficulties with intimacy and relationships. Sharon blends client-centered care with structured methods such as DBT and EMDR when appropriate. That combination lets her both validate a person’s experience and offer concrete steps for change.
She encourages collaboration so each treatment plan fits the person’s needs and pace. Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Missouri. Sharon works with people across many life stages who want steady support while learning skills to live more satisfying lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sharon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Sharon names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sharon uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space where the person sets goals and the therapist listens without judgment. This approach focuses on understanding each person’s experience and supporting their choices.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation by practicing new ways of thinking and behaving.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to manage strong emotions and to build distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be helpful for overwhelm, impulsive behavior, and relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Sharon will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, written check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain regular work on problems while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Sharon commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and related concerns.
What is Sharon's therapy style and approach?
Her style is warm and interactive. She uses client-centered guidance along with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness to teach coping skills and change patterns.
How much experience does she have?
Sharon has 25 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of mental health and addiction concerns.
What credentials and location information are on file?
She holds the LCSW credential and practices in Missouri with licensure recorded in Missouri and Wyoming.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and Sharon accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She sees people via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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