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Virtual Psychotherapy for Adults in Massachusetts
Massachusetts psychotherapist Sharon Manning, LICSW, specializes in perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transitions, treating anxiety, stress, and trauma.
Most people who find their way to therapy have already been trying to figure things out — on their own, with friends, maybe with a previous therapist.
Anxiety, poor sleep, emotional overwhelm, patterns that won't budge no matter how much you understand them — these are the things people usually come in with. Sometimes the roots go back a long way, to early family environments that shaped how you learned to manage, adapt, and hold things together. Sometimes what looks like a psychological problem has a significant hormonal component that nobody has named yet. Often it's both.
I specialize in untangling that. My hospital-based clinical work helped me develop a clinical focus on women's mental health at midlife and menopause — a population that frequently arrives wondering if they're anxious, depressed, burning out, or losing their minds, when perimenopause has been quietly reshaping their neurological and emotional landscape for years. That piece matters clinically, and getting it right changes the treatment.
I work with a small number of private clients directly. The approach is tailored to you — I draw on CBT, IFS, EMDR, and psychodynamic work depending on what actually fits.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation so we can get a sense of whether we're a good fit.
I'm Sharon Manning, MSW, LICSW. I hold a Master of Social Work from Smith College School of Social Work and have been licensed to practice since 2007. I bring depth of training and experience to the work I do with you.
I provide virtual psychotherapy services in Massachusetts across Greater Boston and MetroWest via telehealth— meeting you where it's most convenient, whether at home or at work, eliminating travel time and allowing you to stay in a space where you feel comfortable.
What I Help With
I trained early on to observe before I diagnose. Decades in, that's still how I work: evidence-based methods are the tools, but what guides the work is the actual experience of the person in front of me, in context.
People come to this work for:
Anxiety and chronic overwhelm
Sleep disruption tied to stress or hormonal shifts
Patterns that repeat despite insight — the "I know why, but I still can't stop" experience
Perimenopause and menopause-related mood, cognitive, and identity changes
Trauma, including early family-of-origin patterns that still shape how you cope
Burnout, and the overlap between psychological and physiological exhaustion
How I Work
Over the years, I've drawn on a variety of approaches, and I choose among them based on what actually fits the person in front of me. I've trained across a number of modalities — mindfulness-based stress reduction, meditation, CBT, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy among them. But the approaches I come back to most, and where clients tend to find real traction, are Internal Family Systems and EMDR. These are less familiar to most people than talk therapy or CBT, so I've written more about each elsewhere on the site. Please follow the hyper link to learn more: