About Eric Sharp, LMFT

Welcome to Eric’s Office

It’s about you!

You feel that change is needed. Currently, you may not know where change will lead you. But it has been calling you.

You are a person with experience, love, and worth. There are many voices in your life that you replay in your mind and that occupy your thoughts.

Lately though, it seems that any positive voices that you’ve ever heard are being drowned out by all the ones that criticize or make you doubt yourself.

But you get to define who you are; no one else can. And simply because you are a person, you matter.

Remove the heavy load and seek your vision

You have a vision of who you are, but it feels that systems fall short of honoring that vision. It’s not easy to know who to talk to or what to do.

You feel that there is a need to not go through this alone. But that presents its challenge. You know that some things in your past are still there. It would help if you unpacked them, but like big moving boxes with cobwebs on them, you are unsure of the contents.

And while your unpacked boxes may feel heavy and you know that they are taking up space that you need for all the healthy things you want in your life, you may feel too paralyzed by fear ever to touch them.

How do you start to unpack those boxes?

You could talk to your family, but what if they don’t affirm you? You could talk to friends, but you would feel the need to repay them, or they would expect that you could discuss it for a few moments and then move on to their stuff – but you’re running out of room for anyone else’s stuff.

I am someone who cares deeply for the oppressed, and I believe that it is important to declare their worth and their need for justice loudly. Not having your narrative listened to is a poison of the human spirit.

I will make sure you to honor you as a person and help you work toward the life that you deserve.

My heart is especially attuned to those oppressed, who have found themselves without community, who need to belong. My office and therapeutic style are about creating safety first and then about being able to strive further toward self-actualization in this space and eventually throughout your life.

Create a narrative with the right parts.

It is important to me that you have an opportunity to favor the parts of your narrative that are most valuable to you.

I will not be a judge of what is worthy of being told, but a collaborative partner that works with you to give voice to parts of you that have been silenced over time by your familial experiences, friendships, partnerships, or systemically by life.

Assembling the parts requires safety and love.

When humans are acting through love, compassion, and justice, that is where we can thrive. Love does not mean silencing someone in pain for the sake of peace. It means equity and equality.

Love means being willing to challenge my clients to reach their stated goals based on the values that are most important to them.

To grow, we must feel safe – when we feel comfortable, we often don’t feel the need to grow and develop. So, it is my goal to work with clients in a manner that always feels safe. In that safe place, we will be able to feel some of the discomfort of new realizations and new habits born from health.

It’s about you and your load, not someone else’s.

Let’s work together to make that load lighter. It’s time to unpack what is bothering you so that a new narrative can emerge, one that suits who you are.

Contact me today at (502) 333-9466!