Brian Sharda

• Grand Rapids,

(616)222-0631 ext. 713

Brian Sharda is a bilingual (English/Spanish) licensed social worker who works with adolescents and adults. He has extensive experience working with clients from a variety of backgrounds and with a wide range of challenges. Brian specializes in concerns related to adoption, anxiety, depression, foster care, PTSD, secondary trauma, and marriage and family dynamics. He is an LGBTQIA+ ally and utilizes a combination of EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems theory, and Internal Family Systems. Brian‘s mindfulness-based approach in counseling helps clients increase their own awareness of how stressful circumstances lead to suffering, and how clients can learn to manage their distress more effectively and move toward healing and peace. Additionally, as a foster parent himself, Brian is able to bring a unique counseling perspective to the challenges related to foster care and adoption.

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