About Sheila
Sheila Garrigan is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin who helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and straightforward for someone feeling overwhelmed. She draws on nine years of clinical practice to support people as they build coping strategies and stronger day-to-day habits.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, practical changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Many appointments cover ways to handle anxious thoughts, manage stress, and bounce back after setbacks. Sheila also assists people dealing with family concerns and the strain those relationships can cause.
She works on strengthening self-worth and practical problem solving rather than relying on jargon. The approach is evidence-based and centered on developing resilience and self-understanding. Sheila helps clients identify patterns that keep problems going and then tries out different tools to interrupt those patterns.
Progress is measured by what improves in everyday life. People meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sheila will work with each person to find the session format that fits their schedule and needs.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Sheila uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and understanding thoughts and feelings. One common approach addresses anxious thinking by helping people notice unhelpful thought patterns and practice alternative responses; it is useful for generalized worry and persistent anxious moments. Another approach emphasizes behavioral changes and coping strategies - setting clear small goals, testing new behaviors, and tracking what helps in daily life; this works well for stress, depression, and adapting to life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheila treats the first few sessions as a collaboration to identify goals, test techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep and which to try next.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy or changing schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins or support between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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