About Sheila
Sheila Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. She draws on many years working in mental health to make sessions straightforward and practical for busy lives.
Sheila spent decades in roles such as case manager and case coordinator before focusing on therapy, and she brings eight years of licensed clinical practice to her work.
Background and approach
That background means she knows the systems people navigate and how problems can pile up over time. Her approach is down-to-earth and respectful. She listens first, then helps clients outline goals and steps that feel doable.
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, like clear communication, coping tools, and ways to manage mood and anxiety. Sheila uses a mix of methods depending on what a person needs. Techniques may include cognitive behavioral strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and structured skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions.
She also works with trauma-related concerns using approaches suited to processing painful memories. Sheila emphasizes collaboration and gentle encouragement. She supports clients who are facing grief, relationship issues, problems with self-esteem, identity concerns, parenting stress, or career transitions.
Conversations are paced to match each person’s readiness to change and the real demands of daily life.
Evidence-informed approaches tailored for online care
Sheila commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and it can help with anxiety, low mood, and coping with stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and bring focus back to the present moment.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) when emotion regulation and interpersonal skills are priorities. DBT offers concrete tools for handling strong feelings and improving communication, which can feel useful during life transitions or relationship strain. Choosing which approaches to emphasize is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins and pacing between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy weeks or while juggling family and work responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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