Sharon Kuhlmann, LMFT

Sharon Kuhlmann is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of clinical experience helping adults, couples, and families navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, grief, and life transitions. She combines practical tools with thoughtful listening to support clients working through depression, compassion fatigue, parenting and intimacy concerns, sleep difficulties, ADHD, career questions, and self-esteem issues.

With a background owning and operating a private counseling practice, Sharon brings seasoned clinical judgment and a collaborative style to every session. She aims to understand each person by listening attentively, offering insight, and responding with clear, actionable strategies. In the therapy room she moves between roles as therapist, teacher, coach, and confidant to meet clients where they are and help them work toward their goals.

Sharon’s earlier medical education and experience as an RN - registered nurse - inform her approach to mind-body connections and physiological responses to anxiety, stress, pain, and depression. That clinical perspective supports her use of coping skills and self-calming techniques that integrate physical awareness with emotional work. She also has experience working with healthcare professionals processing pandemic-related and workplace stress.

Clients who choose Sharon can expect pragmatic strategies, steady guidance, and a respectful therapeutic presence as they address relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, or transitions in work and life.

Approaches That Guide Online Sessions

Sharon often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR as part of online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and developing practical skills to change behaviors and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - helps process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional impact by using structured processing techniques that can be adapted for remote sessions. The Gottman Method is also available for couples, offering research-based tools to improve communication, resolve conflict, and rebuild connection.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon works with each client to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting recommendations as therapy progresses and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy with Sharon is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access consistent care from home or elsewhere, reduce travel time, and allow clients to choose the format that supports their engagement and progress.