About Sheila
Sheila Mansfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and rebuild steadiness in daily life. She listens closely and uses straightforward, practical steps so sessions feel useful from the start.
She works with adults on problems like depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and life transitions. She also supports people facing workplace stress, ADHD concerns, addiction issues, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in multiple settings that shaped a flexible approach. Sheila favors methods that are easy to understand and apply. She uses client-centered conversation to set goals that matter to the person sitting across from her.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and practice new behaviors. Solution-focused tools are used to identify small, concrete steps toward change. Sessions often mix short-term problem solving with deeper personal work when needed.
The aim is to leave each meeting with something clear to try between sessions. Sheila describes her style as warm and direct. She builds a collaborative relationship and checks in about what is or isn’t working.
That makes it simpler to adjust the plan so therapy stays practical and relevant to each person’s life.
Approach and online sessions that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful partnership. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects back what matters, and helps set goals that feel relevant and doable. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive space to sort out feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions interact. It helps people spot patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and then practice different ways of thinking or behaving. CBT works well for stress, anxiety, depression, and habit changes that affect day-to-day life.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on practical steps and small wins. Sessions identify clear next actions and what will look different when things improve. This method is handy for people who want targeted, short-term progress on specific problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to choose methods that match a client’s goals, preferences, and life circumstances. That shared planning helps keep sessions relevant and focused.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or shorter sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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