Sharon Cohen, LMSW
Therapy for Women Through Every Stage of Life
Sharon Cohen, LMSW, provides warm, collaborative therapy for women navigating anxiety, relationships, motherhood, pregnancy and postpartum adjustment, perimenopause, menopause, and other life transitions.
When Life Changes, You May Need Space to Change Too
You may be functioning well on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or unlike yourself. Perhaps you are navigating a major transition, adjusting to motherhood, struggling in a relationship, or experiencing changes in your mood, body, or sense of self.
Therapy can offer a space to slow down, make sense of what you are experiencing, and reconnect with yourself. Sharon works with women across the lifespan, helping clients navigate the emotional and relational challenges that can arise as life changes.
Supporting Women Through Life's Transitions
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Pregnancy and becoming a parent can bring profound changes to your identity, relationships, and emotional life. Alongside joy and excitement, this transition can bring anxiety, uncertainty, overwhelm, and questions about who you are and what you need.
Sharon provides a supportive space for women during pregnancy and the postpartum period as they adjust to new roles, changing relationships, and the many demands of early motherhood.
Motherhood & Midlife
As children grow and family dynamics change, women may find themselves reconsidering their identity, relationships, priorities, and needs. The demands of motherhood can also leave little space to consider your own emotional life.
Therapy can provide an opportunity to slow down, reflect on what you need, and explore how you want this next chapter of your life to look and feel.
Perimenopause & Menopause
Perimenopause and menopause can bring physical, emotional, and relational changes that affect how you feel and experience yourself. Changes in mood, anxiety, sleep, relationships, and body image can leave you feeling unlike yourself.
Sharon offers a space to explore these changes and the emotions that accompany them while helping women navigate this transition with greater understanding, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of identity.
Areas of Focus
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Support for women experiencing anxiety, depression, chronic worry, emotional overwhelm, or feeling unlike themselves.
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Exploring communication, boundaries, intimacy, recurring relationship patterns, and the ways relationships shape how you experience yourself.
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Creating space to work through self-doubt, changing identity, body image concerns, and the pressure to meet expectations of yourself and others.
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Support through changes in relationships, motherhood, family, career, identity, and other transitions that can leave you feeling uncertain or overwhelmed.
A Collaborative Approach to Therapy
Sharon believes therapy begins with feeling understood. She creates a warm, thoughtful space where you can be honest about what you're experiencing and explore the parts of your life that may feel difficult or complicated.
Her approach draws from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and trauma-informed therapies. Together, you may explore patterns in your relationships and emotional life while developing practical tools to navigate anxiety, difficult emotions, boundaries, and life transitions.
Sharon's goal is to help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself while feeling more grounded and confident in the choices you make.
About Sharon Cohen, LMSW
Sharon Cohen, LMSW, is a psychotherapist who works with women across the lifespan in New York and New Jersey. She brings warmth, empathy, and curiosity to her work and is committed to creating a therapeutic space where clients feel seen, understood, and supported.
Her clinical work is informed by psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and trauma-informed approaches. Sharon works collaboratively with each client, tailoring therapy to their individual experiences, needs, and goals.
Whether you are preparing for motherhood, adjusting to life with a new baby, navigating changes in your relationships or identity, or entering a new stage of life through perimenopause or menopause, Sharon can help you make sense of the transition and find your footing.
Sharon Cohen, LMSW
85 5th Avenue, Suite 908
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (917) 300-8851
Email: sharon@sharonlcohen.com
Sharon offers in-person therapy in New York City and virtual therapy for clients in New York and New Jersey.