About Sheila
Sheila George is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction find steadier footing. She speaks plainly and listens closely, so visitors can quickly tell if her style feels like a fit. Her goal is to make early conversations feel simple and unhurried.
She brings 12 years of experience working with trauma, grief, mood disorders, and concerns related to intimacy and relationships. In sessions she aims to create a calm space where people can talk about hard things without judgment.
Background and approach
She prioritizes active listening and clear communication so concerns are heard and understood. Her approach blends practical skills with support. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build changes that work day to day. Mindfulness and dialectical methods are part of what she offers for managing strong emotions and stress. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change or feels stuck.
These tools are used in ways that match each person’s pace and goals. Sheila works from Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She has experience with veterans, end-of-life issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and a wide range of mood and behavioral challenges.
If you want straightforward, steady support while learning practical ways to cope, she can help you plan next steps.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping
Sheila uses client-centered therapy to focus on what matters most to the person in front of her, listening first and shaping sessions around your goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy adds tools for tolerating intense emotions and improving emotional regulation when stress feels overwhelming.Finding the best fit is part of the work. Sheila works collaboratively to decide which methods to try first and adjusts techniques based on how you respond. She will talk through options and help set small, achievable goals so progress feels clear and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls let you have a more personal, face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text options allow brief check-ins or ongoing written work between longer appointments. These choices make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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