Credentials
Sharon Glassburn is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of Illinois and holds a Master's degree in couple and family counseling from Adler University. She has practiced for more than 10 years across diverse settings—before solo practice, this included a family counseling agency, walk-in LGBTQ peer counseling center, public middle school, private group practice, and BetterHelp.
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Most recently, Sharon attended a week-long narrative therapy intensive through the Evanston Family Therapy Center and a 4-day LGBTQ-centered Emotionally Focused Therapy externship. Sharon studied marriage and family therapy supervision through the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and has served as a mentor through the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS) for several years. Sharon is certified in PREPARE/ENRICH, an assessment and counseling program for couples considering marriage, coparenting, or cohabitation.
Sharon has been interviewed for The New York Times, for The Chicago Tribune and for the book Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price. She presented at the True Colors national conference for LGBT youth in 2015 and 2016, served as a Topic Expert for GoodTherapy.org on issues of gender and sexual identity from 2015-2020, and has facilitated numerous writing and inclusion/equity education workshops. In addition to GoodTherapy, she has published content featured by Digital Romance and the Red City Review.
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Outside of her therapist role in solo practice, Sharon is currently serving as a Parent Ambassador through the New Haven Early Childhood Council. While professional and academic experiences are valuable in shaping Sharon's therapeutic work, she has also been transformed by her lived experiences of parenthood, partnership, and traumatic loss. As a family therapist--and human--Sharon balances the paradox of embracing uncertainty and transiency in relationship alongside security, connection, and hope.