About Sheila
Sheila Levine is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She greets new clients with a straightforward, compassionate approach. Her manner is calm and encouraging for anyone who feels overwhelmed by daily problems or big life changes.
Sheila views each person as the expert on their own life. She listens first, then helps identify practical steps a person can take. She emphasizes small, doable changes that build confidence over time.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be clear, goal-oriented, and respectful of each person’s pace. With more than three decades of experience as an LMFT, Sheila draws on a mix of structured techniques and supportive conversation. She often uses skills that help manage difficult emotions, reduce unhelpful thinking patterns, and improve communication.
Those tools are paired with moments of reflection and skill practice between sessions. Sheila has worked with people facing addictions, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and mood concerns among other challenges. She helps clients tackle everyday problems like anger, low self-esteem, career stress, and social anxiety.
Her practice also addresses issues related to gender and sexual identity, including support around gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. Sheila offers sessions in English and practices in Connecticut. She encourages people to take the first step, acknowledging that starting therapy can feel hard.
She aims to create a steady, practical path forward for anyone ready to try therapy.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sheila uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, obsessions, and many everyday difficulties because it breaks problems into clear steps that can be practiced.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can help when intense emotions or relationship conflict make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sheila collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She will suggest options and adapt techniques as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is good for longer psychotherapy sessions and skill practice, phone can work when bandwidth is low, and chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when shorter contact is preferred. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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