Sharon Verniero

Rewriting the meaning of a personal story is at the heart of how Sharon Verniero works. A Registered Psychologist based in Burlington, Ontario, she has spent more than thirty-five years listening to people name their own concerns in their own words — a practice she has found to be one of the most consistently useful things she can offer. She works with individuals navigating uncertainty, confusion, and the quiet sense of being stuck, and with children and families where learning differences have been mistaken for limitations.

Sharon’s own early experiences — a hospitalization in childhood, and raising a daughter with a learning disability alongside a mother who shares one — shaped a conviction that the same facts can carry entirely different meanings depending on how they are held. She draws on that understanding when helping students see themselves not as struggling but as people who learn differently and deserve to be taught that way. When a teenager can’t explain why she freezes during tests but scrolls through her feed for hours without effort, Sharon hears that as useful information about how that particular mind works, not a character flaw.

Her practice is built on the belief that people already carry the answers they need; what they’re often missing is a way to reach them. Online sessions are available.