Sharon Matharu, NCPS

Sharon Matharu is a counsellor with four years of professional practice in the United Kingdom. She combines experience as a therapist and as a mentor to help people facing common life challenges. Sharon speaks English and Punjabi and aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable for busy parents and adults.

She uses a person-centred style that focuses on listening and understanding first. That means the conversation starts with what matters most to the individual and moves from there. Sharon also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused ideas when those approaches match a person's goals.

Sessions often focus on problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and eating or body-image issues. Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family concerns, career strain and coping with life changes.

In practice Sharon encourages practical steps alongside open conversation. She helps set small, realistic goals and explores strategies people can try between meetings. The work is collaborative - she adapts the pace and focus to what feels most useful for each person.

If someone wants to begin, Sharon asks them to use the site's Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. From there clients can schedule sessions according to her availability.

How Sharon's Approaches Can Help Online

Sharon draws on person-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy to guide sessions. Person-centred work focuses on listening and building understanding; it helps when someone needs a space to talk through feelings and make sense of life events. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviours connect and offers practical steps for reducing anxiety or shifting unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sharon will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit your goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and changes the focus if something doesn’t feel useful.

Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, for example by avoiding travel time or allowing shorter check-ins that fit a lunch break. It can also be helpful when lower-bandwidth options are needed, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these approaches for remote sessions so the work stays practical and goal-oriented.