About Hope
Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She listens without judgment and offers steady support to people facing big life changes or ongoing worry. Her approach is direct and warm, aimed at helping people feel understood and find practical ways forward.
With 22 years of experience, she has worked with many people dealing with depression, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, attention differences, grief, and career concerns.
Background and approach
Her background includes both outpatient and clinical practice across multiple states, and she brings that breadth to each session. Hope adapts conversations and tools to each person's needs. She draws from cognitive-behavioral methods to address thinking patterns that fuel anxiety.
She also uses acceptance-based and attachment-informed ideas to help people tolerate difficult feelings and strengthen important relationships. Sessions aim to be collaborative and grounded. Expect focused discussion, practical strategies, and space to process strong emotions.
Hope avoids labels and works to reduce shame while building skills for daily life. She offers sessions in English and sees clients in Connecticut. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person's routine.
Therapeutic approaches offered online and how they help
Hope uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people spot and change thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical exercises, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step skill building to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches ways to accept uncomfortable feelings while committing to actions that match personal values. ACT is useful for managing persistent worry, rumination, and life transitions by shifting the focus from eliminating feelings to living a meaningful life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hope will collaborate with each person to try strategies, see what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. That means sessions are a team effort in deciding which tools fit best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; live chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while still accessing licensed professionals and the therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Massachusetts, Utah, Maine, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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