About Sheila
Sheila Cano is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a respectful, empathetic space where people can begin to feel steadier. Her style is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on small steps that fit daily life.
Sheila uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers tools for noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that matter. Attachment-based ideas are used when past relationship patterns affect today's feelings and choices. Over 12 years she has helped people work through concerns such as depression, addictions, grief, sleep trouble, anger, and low self-esteem.
She also addresses specific struggles like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, infidelity, and impulsivity. Sessions are shaped around the issues a person brings in the moment and goals they want to reach. Therapy can be delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules.
Sheila will tailor conversations and plans to each client, aiming for practical strategies and noticeable changes. Taking the first step can be hard, and she encourages realistic pacing and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Sheila blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-informed work. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. ACT focuses on noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and committing to actions that align with personal values. Attachment-based techniques look at patterns from past relationships that shape current reactions and help build healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. During early sessions she will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. If one approach does not seem helpful, she will adjust methods and pace so the work feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins or written messages can help between sessions or when a quick coping plan is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or daily routines while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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