About Cecilia
Cecilia Wheeler is an Ohio-licensed social worker with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps to help people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cecilia speaks plainly and meets people where they are.
She encourages small steps that add up to real change. She helps people who are coping with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship or intimacy issues, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports people facing career pressure, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, anger, and attention-related challenges like ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions address what is most pressing and doable in daily life. Cecilia uses a blend of approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She uses dialectical strategies to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Solution-focused methods help set clear, short-term goals and track progress between meetings.
Trauma-focused work is used when past events still interfere with daily functioning. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She treats clients as partners in planning practical steps, not passive recipients of advice.
Signing up for therapy is framed as a brave first move and the work that follows is paced to fit each person’s life.
How practical approaches work online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change how someone feels. It is commonly used for anxiety, stress, and depression because it teaches concrete skills to try between sessions.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful when stress or anger feels overwhelming.
Cecilia uses these approaches as tools and tailors them to each person. She talks with clients about goals and preferences, then picks methods to try together. Figuring out the best fit is a collaborative process and may shift over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options let people choose formats that match their schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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