VIRTUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES ANWHERE IN MASSACHUSETTS

Transforming

emergency

   into emergence

HELLO, I'M SHARON MANNING, MSW, LICSW.

I view breaking points as radical change points. A place where an end meets a beginning. Navigating these threshold moments opens the way to both your deepening and growth potential.

therapy for when things aren’t going as planned, or your usual ways of handling issues aren’t effective.

There is an old saying that goes, “You can't solve the problem with the problem thinking.” Instead, you can broaden your field of understanding and learn how to reconsider the patterns that keep you stuck. This journey will help you understand what isn’t working for you, and gain skills that will help you move forward from a more centered and clear-minded place.

My practice supports individuals dedicated to transforming their painful experiences into opportunities for growth. This therapeutic work is dynamic and adjusts to your evolving needs. You can learn a way to reclaim and heal parts of yourself that may have been lost or sacrificed during times of difficulty. While survival is undeniably important, mere existence falls short of living fully. Welcoming the vitality that arises from restoring your creativity, joy, curiosity, and playfulness, you can transform your life into one that is genuinely fulfilling.

release

Let go of emotional baggage that may not even entirely be yours, by pinpointing subconscious reactions and beliefs absorbed along the way.

explore

Explore new ways of thinking and shift perspectives, providing choices and possibilities you may not have considered before.

recognize

Recognize the moments when you show up authentically, lean into what hurts, and do not abandon yourself.

respond

Learn to identify what drives your reactions and behaviors, step back, and respond from a centerd place

choose

Make choices based on what you need or is right for you, rather than only steering away from what you want to avoid.

thrive

More than just persevering, you can thrive. Through this journey, you will realize that you are enough just as you are, in all your ways of feeling, being, and moving through the world.

Education & Professional Training

  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA, cum laude in Anthropology

  • Smith College School of Social Work, MSW

Post Graduate Fellowships, Certificates, & Training

  • Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, post graduate fellowship

  • Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, post graduate fellowship

  • Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy I & II, certificate

  • Clinical Hypnosis Dan Brown and Associates, certificate

  • New England Society for Clinical Hypnosis, Level I & II, certificate

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Level I & II, certificate

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level I

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training (MBSR)

Manning Psychotherapy provides experienced mental health care to adults in Massachusetts through telehealth services. With 17 years of experience, I have worked in various institutional settings, including long-term inpatient hospitalization, substance abuse treatment, and community mental health. For over a decade, I have been affiliated with Mass General Brigham, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where I have served as a therapist, preceptor, and supervisor for master's-level social work students. Additionally, I have maintained my private practice for over 14 years and continually pursue further clinical training to ensure an excellent standard of care for my clients.

“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done… you are fierce with reality.”

Florida Scott-Maxwell