About Sheila
Sheila Hodge-Windover is an Oklahoma-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and low self-esteem. She also works with issues like addiction, trauma, sleeping and eating concerns, and challenges tied to life changes. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Sheila listens for patterns that keep problems repeating. She offers clear feedback and collaborative goals.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build on strengths and to teach skills that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Her work draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, emotionally-focused and solution-focused methods, along with hypnotherapy when appropriate. Those tools are used to address thoughts, emotions, and relationship patterns that get in the way of progress.
She has three years of clinical experience as an LMFT practicing in Oklahoma and accepts clients internationally. She communicates in English and provides sessions in several formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. People who reach out can expect a practical, supportive style.
Sheila emphasizes realistic goals, step-by-step strategies, and ongoing check-ins to track change. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift the emotional responses that cause distress in close relationships. It focuses on feelings and attachment patterns to improve connection and reduce reactive conflict.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Sheila treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adjust methods as the work progresses. That makes it easier to try different tools and find what fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow real-time face-to-face work, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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