About Sheila
Sheila Brittain is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with six years of formal clinical experience and a long history working in social services. She uses a collaborative style that helps people make changes in how they think and relate to others. Sheila writes plainly and meets people where they are in daily life.
Sheila combines practical experience with a focus on relationships and personal patterns. She helps people notice the beliefs and feelings that shape their choices.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and major life changes. Her approach draws on attachment ideas and client-centered listening to understand how early relationships influence current behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of responding.
Mindfulness skills are offered to help with emotion regulation and grounding during stressful moments. Sheila also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and caregiving stress. She supports people dealing with family of origin problems, codependency, control issues, and chronic feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Her background includes mediation and small business consulting, which informs a practical, solutions-minded approach. Therapy with Sheila is framed as a shared process. She aims to create a trusting space where clients can try new behaviors and notice different results.
For someone managing anxiety or navigating life transitions, she focuses on clear steps and steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sheila uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and closeness. This approach helps when trust, intimacy, or patterns from family of origin cause recurring stress or conflict. Client-Centered Therapy is also central to her work and focuses on listening, validation, and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for building self-esteem and navigating life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheila talks with clients about their goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed. She works together with each person to try techniques and decide what feels most helpful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep progress going between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on anxiety, relationship patterns, and coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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