Dr. Sharon Young

Dr. Sharon Young is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in Pennsylvania (PA Psychologist PS016165) with 22 years of psychotherapy experience. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Georgia State University and has provided care to clients across the lifespan, from children through older adults, in a wide range of settings including outpatient community mental health and health centers, outpatient private practice, inpatient units in private and public hospitals, a state psychiatric hospital, and a university counseling center.

Across her career, Dr. Young has supported people navigating many psychological concerns, including mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder; anxiety-related difficulties such as generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder; psychotic disorders; attentional challenges; impulse control and behavioral concerns; substance use and misuse; and the effects of significant stress and trauma, including acute, post-traumatic, and complex post-traumatic stress disorders. She has also helped clients address specific high-risk patterns such as persistent suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors.

Dr. Young also works with a broad range of life challenges, including grief, shame, adjustment difficulties, stress related to work, education, or relationships, relationship and parenting concerns, self-esteem issues, identity-related concerns, and experiences of imposter phenomenon. She understands clients and the therapy process through a psychodynamic lens while bringing a warm, collaborative, empathic, client-centered presence to sessions. Drawing from approaches such as cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, compassion-focused, emotion-focused, narrative, and humanistic-existential therapies, she partners with clients to clarify goals and support meaningful psychological change.