About Sheila
Dr. Sheila Gold is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Louisiana. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Her work also covers relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, addiction concerns, grief, self-esteem, and career stress. She uses straightforward, practical conversations to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on the problems at hand and on steps that feel doable between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different responses in everyday life. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. These methods help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new habits, and accept difficult feelings while pursuing meaningful goals.
Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Dr. Gold emphasizes collaboration.
She works with clients to set clear goals and checks in on what’s working. Therapy can include coaching-style conversations to support decision making and action steps outside sessions. People who come to her often want help with communication, commitment worries, codependency, or managing caregiver stress.
She also supports those coping with cancer, aging concerns, blended family challenges, and addiction recovery. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on practical change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify personal values and take committed steps toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns and replacing them with more effective responses; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current relationships and communication, which can help with intimacy, codependency, and family issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit those needs. Sessions are collaborative - plans are adjusted based on what helps and what doesn’t over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through multiple formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deep work, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching notes, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and continue momentum when changes are needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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