About Sheila
Sheila Wassell is a humanistic counsellor with 18 years of experience. She practices in the United Kingdom and works in a flexible, creative way to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or life changes. Sheila uses an eclectic mix of approaches that centre on the therapeutic relationship.
She offers empathic listening and gentle challenge so clients can voice difficult feelings and start to make sense of them.
Background and approach
Sessions may use different media and creative methods to suit how a person prefers to work. People come to her for many concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, addictions and grief. She also supports those facing body image issues, long-term illness, career pressures and compassion fatigue.
Sheila helps people with relationship and intimacy-related difficulties and with parenting stresses. Her approach draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas, along with cognitive behavioural and emotionally-focused techniques, plus mindfulness practices. This mix aims to build emotional awareness, reduce unhelpful thinking patterns and improve everyday coping.
Sheila is a BACP member, which means she follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's standards. She works collaboratively, helping each person set goals and find practical steps they can use between sessions. She welcomes people who want a thoughtful, steady approach and prefers to tailor sessions to each person rather than using a fixed method.
Approaches that suit online therapy and how they help
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and reactions; it helps people understand patterns that affect current relationships and emotional responses. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of sessions, offering non-judgemental listening and space to find personal solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical ways to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sheila will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then tailor methods collaboratively. That means sessions can shift over time as priorities change and progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls support face-to-face style conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who find writing easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or mobility needs and to keep continuity when travel or location change occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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