Mental Health Counseling

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Leadership Coaching

Online English Counseling for Adults, Adolescents, or Children

Be still and notice that every person deserves well-being.

Whether mental health counseling, leadership coaching, or social and emotional leadership programs, I am genuinely committed to the well-being experience alongside my clients.

The majority of the clients I serve are either expats or expat families.

Services

Counseling & Consultation

My professional counseling experience includes work with people in several areas: family background, identity development, emotional regulation, conflict and reconciliation, social and emotional leadership skills for youth, expat challenges, being a person of faith in post-faith contexts, acute or chronic stress along with anxiety and depression, accumulated grief from pain and loss in life, leaders seeking innovation support, and people wrestling with guilt and shame in life.

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Trauma

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Premarital Pastoral Counseling

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Conflict Mediation

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Social & Emotional Leadership for Youth

Growth Groups: Social and Emotional Leadership Program for Youth or Adults

In addition to individual mental health counseling, I offer a small group social and emotional leadership program. I believe you will find this program to be a great benefit for your personal growth or for your child’s personal growth. If you would like to read more about why this program is important, read the following: Overview of Sharrett Counseling Growth Group Program. Watch the video below to learn more.

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Your Counselor

Originally from the United States, I am currently based in Athens, Greece. As a mental health professional, I am working with mental health initiatives for individuals and for groups. With degrees in counseling psychology and psychotherapy, educational leadership, and theological studies, education has been an important part of my personal and professional journey. With over 10 years of counseling experience in contexts ranging from hospitals to classrooms to online sessions, I provide counseling and coaching for adults, adolescents, or children, especially expats and expat families.

I have lived and worked in four European cities, including Sofia, Athens, Thessaloniki, and Tirana. My background includes work as a professional educator in international schools, a professional athlete, a pastoral counselor, a cross-cultural educational program coordinator, a director of community mental health initiatives, a coordinator for social and emotional leadership programs for youth, and a mental health counselor in private practice.

Additionally, I am a lifelong learner whose approaches as a counselor are person-centered, existential, and integrative, specifically seeking to empower clients toward innovation and creativity as they discover their way forward in life. I find joy in the privilege and responsibility of walking alongside others as they grow personally or professionally.

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Presentations, Professional Training, Publications, & Seminars

2003

Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis Graduate Program, M.Ed.
East Tennessee State University

2005 – 2012
Designed Professional Program for Athletes: Becoming a Total Athlete
Athletes in Action in Johannesburg, South Africa; Sofia, Bulgaria; Chicago, Illinois

October 2016 – April 2017
A Theology of Christianity in a Post-Christian World
Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IL

2013 – 2017
Theological Studies & Cross-cultural Leadership Program, M. Div.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL

July 2018
“Needs of Helpers for People-Helping Professionals”
Johnson City Medical Center, Clinical Pastoral Education Training

June – August 2018
Clinical Pastoral Education Counseling Program
Johnson City Medical Center

January 2019
“Needs of Helpers: Are We Surviving or Thriving?”
Anglo-American School of Sofia, Professional Development Workshop

May 2021
Clinical Case Conceptualization: Professional Framework for Working with a Client
The American College of Greece

September 2019 – July 2021
Counseling Psychology & Psychotherapy Graduate Program, MSc.
The American College of Greece

July 2021 – September 2021
“The Effects of Community Belonging and Collective Resilience on Psychological Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bulgaria and Greece”
Thesis Defense, The American College of Greece
Lecture for Colloquy Communities

March 2022
“Cross-cultural Life & Interpersonal Relationships”
Workshop for Colloquy Communities

April 2022
“Third Culture Kids (TCK’s) & Expat Life”
Workshop for Colloquy Communities
November 2023
“World Religions, Beliefs, & Cultural Expressions: An Interfaith Dialogue”
Workshop for Colloquy Communities

November 2023
Primary Years Program and Middle Years Program for International Baccalaureate School Curriculum
American International School in Thessaloniki, Greece

December 2021 – Present
Director, Colloquy Communities
Connecting Expats & Locals Through Live Online Workshops Mental Health & Leadership

May 2025
Co-Director, Cyclical Europe Counseling Center
A Counseling Center & Leadership Hub for Christian Leaders or People Wounded for the Church or Religion

Sharrett Counseling: Every Person Deserves Well-being