Mission Statement

The mission of Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW, Therapist For Sensitive And Gifted

Is to help CASIGYs™ release your creativity

so you can become fully alive and fulfill your destiny.

As you pursue this, you may discover, to your dismay,

that you are hindered by your pain

or haunted by your past.

I then help

you (if and when you desire and choose it),

to heal your past,  transform your pain,

care for your soul,

find and honor your self,

thus opening the way to the thriving and significance that you seek.
Featured Quote

A child will integrate only those experiences that her primary care-givers can accept and hold, and will exclude from awareness those thoughts, feelings and behaviors that might disrupt her most crucial attachment relationships. These unacceptable experiences then remain undeveloped, unintegrated, and impossible to verbalize. They become … nearly unreachable places in the psyche that hold implicit experiences of relational trauma.

— Linda Cunningham, Sandplay and the Clinical Relationship