About Sheila
Sheila Stewart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She has 17 years of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Sheila aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and understood before moving toward change.
Sheila uses a client-centered way of working that keeps the person’s goals front and center. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to build awareness and reduce reactivity in stressful moments. Sheila has supported people through life transitions, parenting challenges, family conflict, and career stress. She also addresses issues such as trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and self-esteem struggles.
Additional focus areas include body image, forgiveness, and blended family issues. Sessions are conversational and practical. Sheila helps people set small, realistic steps and practices to try between meetings.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding internal reasons to change. Sheila works with adolescents and adults who are ready to talk through current problems and develop coping tools. She offers a blend of therapy styles to match each person’s needs and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sheila commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify what matters to them and change the thoughts and actions that get in the way. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person's goals, while CBT looks at patterns of thinking and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.Sheila also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills so people can learn concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. DBT skills are useful when strong emotions, relationship conflict, or recurring patterns make daily life harder.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Sheila will talk with each person about their situation, goals, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. The plan can change as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions let people work face to face, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging can keep momentum between meetings. These options allow for consistent care while fitting work, school, parenting, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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