About Sheila
Sheila Funk-Jansen is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience helping people face anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and practices in Iowa. Sheila writes in a direct, down-to-earth way and meets people where they are in life.
Sheila focuses on practical steps that feel doable day to day. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and to build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set small goals and Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, family of origin conflicts, addiction, caregiver strain, and handling big life changes.
Sheila also supports people dealing with abandonment, blended family issues, cancer, aging concerns, divorce and separation, and communication problems. Sessions are geared toward clear, manageable steps rather than academic talk. Sheila emphasizes the therapist-client relationship as the foundation for honest conversation and steady progress.
She aims to help clients build resilience and move past barriers that keep them stuck. Sheila offers appointments across the week and some weekends to work with clients' schedules. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session at a time that fits the client.
Using Practical Therapies for Online Support
Sheila commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily routines. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable goals and what is already working, helping people make steady progress toward clearer outcomes.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Sheila will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as needed. That collaborative stance helps tailor sessions to each person's needs rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people meet face to face when schedules allow, phone sessions can work with limited bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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