About Shelia
Shelia Ransom Jenkins is a licensed social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. Shelia focuses on worries that come from trauma, depression, life changes, and family conflict. She aims to create a calm space where people can name what they are feeling and talk through next steps.
She uses straightforward, practical conversation to identify patterns that keep problems going. Sessions often include skills for coping with panic, improving communication, and handling strong emotions.
Background and approach
Shelia pays attention to how attachment and abandonment worries show up in relationships and daily life. People who come for help may be working through divorce, grief, isolation, or questions about life purpose. Shelia supports those facing mood disorders, panic attacks, social anxiety, and effects of past abuse.
She also addresses control issues, impulsivity, forgiveness, and challenges many women describe. Her licenses are LCSW and LICSW, and she practices from Minnesota while accepting international clients. She brings two decades of direct practice to each session and adapts to what an individual needs in the moment.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Shelia helps clients set realistic goals and practices new skills between meetings. Her style is steady, respectful, and focused on helping people build a more manageable daily life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that target anxiety and trauma symptoms. One common approach focuses on skill-building to manage panic and intense emotion - teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce reactivity. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment - helping people recognize repeated interaction cycles, practice new communication, and repair trust over time.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Shelia works collaboratively to identify what fits a person's symptoms, goals, and day-to-day life. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in often to make sure the work feels helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in suits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share quick updates, practice new skills between sessions, or get support when scheduling is tight. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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