About Sheila
Sheila Cuomo brings over 20 years of clinical experience to her work in Maryland. She holds MD, which stands for Doctor of Medicine, and LCPC, a state counseling license. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and mood disorders in a calm, steady way.
She uses straightforward talk and practical tools in sessions. She pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and shame affect daily life. She also helps people cope with panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, phobias, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic pornography use.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and faith-sensitive, so spiritual concerns can be part of the conversation when clients want that. She aims to make space for hard feelings while also working toward clearer routines and coping skills. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on small, usable changes.
She combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with empathy and real-world problem solving. That means talking through patterns, trying different strategies, and tracking what helps. The therapist frames progress as ongoing work rather than quick fixes.
People reach out for help with mood disorders, self-harm thoughts, seasonal mood changes, paranoia, and complex trauma symptoms. The work often includes learning new ways to respond to intense feelings and rebuilding trust in oneself. Sheila supports clients as they practice healthier habits and build resilience.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Sheila works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breathing strategies, exposure steps, and short behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on processing traumatic memories and their effects on daily life, helping people make sense of painful events and reduce their hold over current emotions.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then suggest a few strategies to try. Over subsequent sessions they will adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful to the client.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when possible, phone can work well with limited bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be used for quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, family, and other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English