About Sheila
Sheila Flipse is a licensed counselor with three decades of experience helping people through hard seasons. She holds the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential in Nevada and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in New York. Sheila aims to walk alongside people who are hurting with kindness and steady support.
She focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She also helps with life changes, addiction-related struggles, compassion fatigue, and relationship tensions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people experiencing homelessness, incarceration, military connections, college settings, and older adult needs. Sheila blends straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to build momentum for change.
Sessions emphasize identifying what already helps, then expanding those skills into daily life. Her training and long experience inform a calm, measured style. Sheila has taught courses on death and dying and offers experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling.
She likes to help clients build a stronger sense of self and clearer direction when life feels stuck. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Scheduling is done through her calendar, and she asks clients to keep appointments when possible.
Outside of work she enjoys travel, board games, and time with her dog, Ozzie.
How Sheila’s methods fit into online therapy
Sheila commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change how situations feel; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to make changes and build momentum when motivation feels low; it can be helpful for addictions, career shifts, or lifestyle adjustments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sheila treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help clients decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. She often combines approaches to match a person’s needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English
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