Specialties
Therapy Approaches & Specialties
Dr. Sharrott is highly trained in the following approaches, among others:
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
CBT is an evidence-based therapy built on a simple idea: your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected, and changing one changes the others. We identify the thought patterns that feed anxiety and perfectionism — the catastrophizing, the all-or-nothing thinking — and test them against reality, while building practical skills you can use between sessions. It’s structured, present-focused, and gives you tools, not just talk.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Psychodynamic therapy explores how earlier experiences and relationships shape the patterns you repeat today — in work, in love, and in how you treat yourself. It’s supported by decades of research on lasting change: rather than only managing symptoms, we work to understand their roots, so the change holds. It’s a good fit when you notice yourself living the same story in different settings and want to understand why.
What is Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy?
IFS is an evidence-informed approach, with a growing body of research, based on the idea that the mind is made of “parts”. You know some of yours: the inner critic, the perfectionist, the part that people-pleases, the part that’s exhausted by all of them. Rather than fighting those parts, we get curious about what they’re protecting — and help the calm, steady core of you (what IFS calls the Self) lead. Clients often find it a gentler way to work with shame, trauma, and long-standing patterns. I’m trained in IFS and use it often with high-achieving adults whose inner critics run the show.
Read: What Is IFS Therapy? A Guide to Internal Family Systems
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a trauma-focused approach, with emerging research, built on the observation that where you look affects how you feel. By finding specific eye positions — “brainspots” — connected to where difficult experiences are stored, we can help your brain process things that talking alone hasn’t reached: grief, trauma, and the moments your body remembers even when your mind has moved on. Sessions are quiet and focused, and proceed at your pace. I’m trained in Brainspotting and often use it when clients feel stuck in talk therapy.
What is a Holistic Mind–Body Approach?
Anxiety and burnout live in the body as much as the mind — in your sleep, your breathing, your shoulders. Alongside talk therapy, we pay attention to the whole system: rest, movement, nervous-system regulation, and the daily habits that keep you depleted or restore you. It’s not an alternative to clinical work; it’s what makes the clinical work stick.
Frequently asked questions
What is Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy?
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that works with the different "parts" of the mind — such as the inner critic, the perfectionist, and the people-pleaser — to reduce internal conflict, heal old wounds, and build resilience. Dr. Kim Sharrott is trained in IFS and offers IFS therapy in person in Manhattan and online throughout New York.
What is Brainspotting therapy?
Brainspotting is a brain- and body-based therapy that uses specific eye positions connected to stored emotional distress to help the brain process trauma, grief, and anxiety at a level deeper than words. Dr. Kim Sharrott is trained in Brainspotting and offers it in person in Manhattan and online throughout New York.
Who is a good fit for IFS or Brainspotting?
IFS and Brainspotting can help thoughtful, high-achieving adults dealing with anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, trauma, and grief — including people who understand their patterns intellectually but still feel stuck. Sessions with Dr. Sharrott are $250, and a complimentary 15-minute consultation is available to see whether the work is a fit.
What is body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)?
Body dysmorphic disorder is a preoccupation with one or more perceived flaws in your appearance that others barely notice or don’t see at all — and it can consume hours a day in mirror-checking, comparing, camouflaging, or seeking reassurance. It isn’t vanity. It’s a treatable condition, closely related to OCD, and it often travels with anxiety, depression, and perfectionism.
Therapy for BDD uses cognitive-behavioral approaches adapted specifically for body image — gradually reducing checking and avoidance rituals, and loosening the grip appearance concerns have on your life. The work is paced and collaborative; the goal is not to convince you that you look fine, but to give you your time and attention back.
Ready for your life to feel different?
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