About Sheila
Sheila Krieger is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage anxiety and everyday stress. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps so clients can start feeling steadier. Sheila works to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can take small steps forward.
She focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing career change, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, body image, communication problems, and blended family issues. Sheila draws on several therapeutic approaches to match the person in front of her. That may include cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based techniques to work with difficult feelings, or emotionally-focused methods for relationship issues.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s goals and pace. She has about 10 years of clinical experience and holds an LPC credential, listed as MI LPC and OR LPC. Her practice is based in Michigan and she conducts work in English.
Sheila values practical strategies alongside empathetic listening to help people take action between sessions. To begin, she asks people to describe what matters most to them and what they hope will change. From there she and the client build a plan that fits daily life and personal values.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them and then choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering hands-on exercises for panic, worry, and mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions in close relationships and improving connection and communication when intimacy or conflict is a concern.Figuring out the best approach is a team effort. Sheila will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust them over time so the work fits daily life and leads to doable steps between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people meet face to face when that helps. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a better option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to share thoughts between scheduled meetings or to have a brief check-in during a busy week. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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