About Sheila
Sheila Flipse is a licensed counselor who has spent three decades helping people navigate loss, stress, and major life changes. She holds Nevada LCPC and New York LMHC credentials and draws on long experience supporting people through grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Sheila keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
She helps people identify what already works in their lives and build on those strengths. She also guides clients to notice negative thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more helpful ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with homeless and elderly populations, people in prison, college students, and members of the military. That range gave her many chances to practice skills for coping, decision making, and rebuilding after loss. She also taught a college course on death and dying, which informs her grief work.
Sheila uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, plus client-centered and narrative approaches when they fit. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. She aims to help people regain confidence and develop a healthier self-concept.
Outside of practice she enjoys travel and community volunteering. She mentions her dog Ozzie may sometimes be present during sessions as he adjusts to recent loss. Sheila welcomes conversations about stress, self-esteem, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, and many other issues listed on her profile.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Sheila frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life changes. That approach helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns by turning insights into concrete, doable steps. She also relies on motivational interviewing to help people clarify their goals and find internal reasons to make changes; this method is useful for addictions, career shifts, and lifestyle choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheila discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods as needed. She aims to collaborate so the plan fits the client's pace and day-to-day demands rather than imposing a single technique.
Online appointments are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in option or fit a busy schedule. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel commitments while keeping a steady connection with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English