About Sheila
Sheila Adams is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience in mental health care. She began her career supporting families involved with child welfare and later worked in community mental health. Sheila focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress, and she offers practical support for depression, grief, and parenting challenges.
She uses a solution-focused outlook that centers on what clients want to change. Sessions aim to identify small, doable steps and build skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She blends listening with direct strategies so conversations lead to action. Sheila draws on approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try alternatives. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and grounding tools.
For people with traumatic memories, she may incorporate EMDR-informed ideas to reduce distress linked to past events. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sheila encourages clients to set clear goals and tracks progress session to session.
She explains techniques in everyday language and focuses on what fits each person’s life. Sheila practices in Missouri and carries an LPC credential. She offers a range of remote session types to fit busy schedules, and she works with people who want concrete ways to reduce anxiety, cope with life changes, or improve relationships.
How Sheila’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities; the therapist listens closely and helps clients clarify what matters most so sessions follow the client’s pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping through mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy itself. Sheila works together with each client to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and tracking what feels most helpful as work progresses.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth or a quieter setup is needed, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people access care from different locations and schedules while keeping the work focused on clear goals and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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