Sharon Marshall
Psychotherapist
Sharon qualified as a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in 2017 after four years Masters degree training at the Tavistock Centre in London. Before that, she was a Mental Health Nurse and worked in the NHS until recently, mostly in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) inpatient, day service and community services.
She has over 20 years of experience with individuals and families, working in a way that is practical, non-blaming and down-to-earth, matching her style of working to the needs of the person or family and helping them to recognise their own skills at finding solutions to their difficulties. She is experienced in working with neurodiversity, depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship conflict and many other conditions and situations.
Systemic Psychotherapy is suitable for a wide range of difficulties and relationship problems. It helps people understand themselves in the context of their close relationships and wider community, enabling people to understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on strengths and make useful changes. Family is used to describe any group of people who care about each other and not just those who are related by birth.
She also uses other approaches, adopting ideas from cognitive and dialectical behaviour therapy, attachment narrative therapy, non-violent resistance and others that she feels may offer a useful way of understanding a particular issue.
Sharon has done further training in Mentalisation Based Treatment for Families, Trauma Focused CBT, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Non-Violent Resistance.
Sharon is a member of the Association of Family Therapists, registered with the UKCP and holds an Enhanced DBS Certificate.
Qualifications
MA Systemic Psychotherapy – University of Essex (Tavistock & Portman Trust)
Post Graduate Diploma in Systemic Family Practice with Eating Disorders – University of Reading
Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Systemic Theory – University of East London (Tavistock & Portman Trust)
BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing – University of Brighton
