Sharla "Charlie" Harrison , LPC

Sharla "Charlie" Harrison is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 22 years of clinical experience. As an LPC, she has formal training and state licensure to provide professional counseling and support to individuals navigating difficult emotional and relational challenges.

Her practice focuses on guiding people through depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. She works with relationship and family concerns, helping with communication problems, blended family issues, attachment challenges, and patterns such as codependency and commitment struggles. Sharla also addresses stress, compassion fatigue, anger, self-esteem and body image concerns, as well as issues related to adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, illness and cancer, domestic violence, dissociation, and feelings of emptiness.

Sharla brings particular experience in supporting women, young adults, and those facing workplace stress or transitions across life stages. Her therapeutic work emphasizes healing from past experiences, strengthening self-worth, improving communication, and rebuilding meaningful connections. She creates a respectful, person-focused environment where clients can explore emotions, identify obstacles, and develop practical strategies for change.

Sharla is accepting new clients and works with both domestic and international clients, offering collaborative, individualized care informed by a range of evidence-informed approaches.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Sharla integrates client-centered therapy, which emphasizes the client's perspective and builds on individual strengths to foster self-awareness and growth - this approach is useful for people working through self-esteem, life transitions, and ongoing emotional concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people understand and change patterns in close relationships by exploring emotions and interactional cycles that maintain conflict or disconnection.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sharla collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts strategies over time so the work remains relevant and effective.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and connect with a therapist from different locations, while still focusing on meaningful therapeutic progress.