About Sheila
Sheila Gault is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 20 years of experience helping people through stress and anxiety. She speaks directly and kindly, and focuses on practical steps to ease day-to-day struggles. Sheila aims to help clients feel more grounded and able to manage life’s demands.
Sheila uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions emphasize self-awareness, coping skills, and clearer thinking. She often draws on mindfulness and cognitive techniques to reduce worry and improve sleep and mood.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, and career or life transitions. Sheila supports people facing trauma, addiction concerns, and the long-term stress of caregiving or compassion fatigue. She pays attention to body image, self-esteem, and questions about life purpose.
In session she practices client-centered methods that put the person's goals first. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotion regulation and boundaries are needed. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at small, useful changes rather than abstract theory.
Sheila welcomes people who identify as LGBT and those coping with family-of-origin problems, divorce, infidelity, or communication struggles. Her outlook blends modern psychotherapy with elements of mindfulness and existential reflection to help people find meaning and move forward.
How Sheila Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online
Sheila commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person identify their own goals; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift mood.Sheila approaches treatment as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals and try different methods to see what fits best. Together they decide which tools to use and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the person's preferences central to the work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging works for quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or brief coping reminders during the week. These options help people fit sessions into busy schedules and continue steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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