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Psychotherapist supporting women in perimenopause and menopause, offering mental health care for anxiety, depression, spiritual trauma, and major life transitions.

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.