Virtual psychotherapy services anwhere in Massachusetts
You’ve taken time to look for help. Let’s make that effort matter.
What if healing begins with trusting that some part of you already knows how to come back to center—even if it’s hard to find right now?
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. Something brought you here now, and that's usually worth paying attention to.
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 completed two psychoanalytic fellowships following graduation. My clinical training includes Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Osher Center and Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz. I serve on the Menopause and Midlife Advisory Board at Mass General Brigham.
I provide virtual psychotherapy services to residents throughout Massachusetts — 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 to expect
The first few sessions are mostly history — I need to understand your background before I can be useful. From there, we shift to the problems you want to be free of, or the things you need to come to terms with. That might involve some explanation of what's happening and why, or learning specific skills, depending on what you need.
When you're doing better more often than not — when the suffering that brought you in has eased significantly — we start thinking about reducing frequency. Eventually, an occasional check-in, and then we close.
Eighteen years in, I've stopped being attached to any single method. What I'm attached to is whether something is actually helping.