About Sheila
Sheila Burrowes is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a client-centred approach to help people with stress and anxiety. She works at a steady pace that suits each person and focuses on what matters most to them. Sheila holds BACP accreditation which reflects her professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Sheila offers practical listening and gentle guidance for a broad range of concerns.
Background and approach
People come to her with relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, addiction issues, trauma and abuse, or struggles with life transitions. She also supports those facing career dilemmas, intimacy questions, parenting strain and difficulties linked to ageing or serious illness. Her style draws on client-centred work alongside narrative and psychodynamic ideas.
That means she pays attention to personal stories and the patterns that shape how someone feels and behaves. Mindfulness techniques are used to help manage overwhelming moments and bring attention back to the present. Sheila has five years of clinical experience and works with individuals and couples.
Her approach adapts to each person - sometimes exploring past influences, sometimes focusing on practical coping skills in the here and now. Sessions can cover immediate coping strategies for anxiety and stress, longer conversations about relationships and identity, or focused help after loss or substance-related problems. Sheila aims to create space to talk, think and try different ways of handling difficult feelings.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling
Sheila uses a client-centred approach that keeps the person's goals and pace at the heart of sessions. This method focuses on listening closely, reflecting what the person says, and helping them find their own solutions. It suits anxiety, stress and many life concerns where a steady, supportive presence matters.She also incorporates mindfulness techniques to help manage overwhelming feelings. Mindfulness work teaches simple breathing and attention exercises that can be practised between sessions to reduce rumination and increase calm. Narrative therapy features in her work too, which means she helps people look at the stories they tell about themselves and try out alternative ways of understanding their experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Sheila will discuss options and decide together with each person which methods to try based on their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process can mean adjusting focus as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility so sessions can happen from different locations and at times that match work and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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