Dr. Sharon Young

Dr. Sharon Young is a clinical psychologist licensed in Pennsylvania with 22 years of practice and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Georgia State University. She has provided care across a range of settings, including outpatient community mental health and health centers, outpatient practices, inpatient hospital units, a state psychiatric hospital, and a university counseling center. Her background reflects long-term work with people at many points in life, from children to older adults.

Her clinical work has addressed mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety presentations including generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and panic symptoms, psychotic disorders, attentional difficulties, impulse control and behavioral concerns, substance use and misuse, and a spectrum of stress- and trauma-related problems including acute, post-, and complex post-traumatic stress. She has also assisted those coping with persistent suicidal ideation or self-harm and supported people facing grief, shame, adjustment challenges, relationship strains, parenting difficulties, self-esteem concerns, identity questions, and imposter phenomenon.

Dr. Young approaches therapy through a psychodynamic lens while remaining client centered and collaborative. She emphasizes empathic listening and works with techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, compassion-focused, emotion-focused, narrative, and humanistic-existential frameworks. She treats clients as experts on their experience and partners with them to pursue goals for meaningful change.