Sharon has a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and has completed the necessary modules of the Vocational Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution to allow registration with the Attorney General's Department as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. In addition, Sharon has completed the Child-Inclusive Family Dispute Resolution Training with Jenn Macintosh as well as a number of subjects offered by the Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Sharon has worked with mums-and-babies, mums-and-toddlers, children, adolescents, adults and couples: working with grief, anxiety, obsessions, envy, anger, depression, de-motivation, indecision, happiness and much more.
As a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Sharon also has experience working with separating, newly separated and long-divorced parents.
Mums-&-Babies to Six-Yr-Olds
Sharon has supported mums in the development of their understanding and acceptance of their babies/toddler/preschoolers and the processing of their own complex emotions, thereby assisting the development of a rewarding relationship for both mum and baby/young child.
Children
Sharon has worked with school-aged children and parents of school-aged children, working with children's anxiety, phobias, obsessive tendencies, symptoms consistent with ADD/ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome and the learning-difficulties-creating-anxiety-and-the-anxiety-contributing-to-learning-difficulties cycle. Sharon has also assisted with the issues arising for children of parents in relationship breakdown and parents in conflict and children of separating and divorced parents. Sharon has written therapeutic stories for school-aged children and seen the therapeutic benefit of such stories.
Adolescents
Sharon has worked with adolescents around issues arising from death of parent; death of grandparent; absent parent; step-parent struggles; learning difficulties; academic pressure; parental alcoholism; adolescent drug and alcohol use; domestic violence; juvenile crime; depression; self harm and suicidal ideation; coming from a minority ethnic group; family migration; Aboriginality; racial tension; adolescent-parent tension; adolescent-parent alienation; and coming to terms with one's developing sexuality.
Relationships
Sharon has worked with individuals and couples in relationships under stress; and with individuals and couples wishing to undergo separation counselling. In addition, Sharon has worked as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with separated parents dealing with issues relating to relationship breakdown, parenting arrangements post separation, child adjustment to separation, the impact of ongoing parental conflict on children, successful co-parenting, managing different parenting styles in different houses, domestic violence, and alleged child sexual abuse.