What is needing our attention today?
That’s where we begin.
SHARON MANNING, MSW, LICSW.
My clinical background spans hospital systems, outpatient clinics, community mental health, and private practice — settings that between them cover a wide range of presentations and degrees of complexity. That range shapes how I think, particularly about cases where medical, psychological, and social factors are all in play at once.
In addition to my private practice, I've been based at Mass General Brigham for over a decade, where my work has included direct clinical care, supervising graduate social work students, and participating in a hospital-based advisory group on menopause and midlife care.
I trained at Smith College School of Social Work and completed two psychoanalytic fellowships after graduation. My continuing education includes EMDR, Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Osher Center, and training through the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.
Before any of that, I studied cultural anthropology — and I've never entirely stopped. It informs how I listen, how I think about the ways people construct meaning, and why I don't assume one clinical framework fits everyone.
This is a small, independent practice — not affiliated with any platform, network, or outside investor. Notes are kept on paper. Treatment decisions are made between us.