Sharon Jenkins, LCSW, CSW

Sharon Jenkins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice helping adults navigate life’s challenges. She approaches therapy from a strengths-based, client-centered, and solution-focused perspective, working collaboratively to address concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, and substance use. Sharon also has experience with a wide range of issues including grief, self-esteem, parenting, addiction, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and many other stressors that affect daily functioning.

Trained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Psychology and Clinical Social Work, she relocated to Georgia and obtained licensure as an LCSW. Her credentials include LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW - Certified Social Worker, which reflect her professional training and state credentialing. Clinically, she integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered and Existential methods to tailor care to each person’s needs.

Sharon emphasizes collaboration and respects each person as the expert of their own life. She aims to create a real, steady therapeutic relationship in which clients feel supported while working toward practical goals. Outside of her professional life she values family, faith, and friendships. She grew up in North Carolina with three brothers, and she cherishes her role as a parent to a young adult son who is an Air Force veteran. She enjoys walking and hiking, eating out, listening to music, and spending time at the beach, and she shares her home with two dogs and a cat. Clients describe her as calming, genuine, encouraging, and trustworthy, and she considers it an honor to support people in their healing and growth.