About Sheila
Sheila Gault is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens with warmth to help people find clearer footing when life feels overwhelming. Sheila encourages growth, self-awareness, and practical steps toward feeling more like themselves again.
Sheila blends straightforward counseling with reflective conversation. She often uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and uses mindfulness practices to reduce stress and increase present-moment calm. Her work covers many life concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, addiction-related struggles, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric matters, parenting strain, and complicated grief.
She also supports people facing career challenges, body image worries, codependency, and forgiveness or guilt issues. Sheila pays attention to both practical problems and the personal values that shape decisions. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect guidance on coping skills, communication strategies, and ways to rebuild daily routines that feel manageable. Sheila aims to empower people to make choices that fit their lives and values. Sheila practices in Michigan as an LPC.
She offers services in English and focuses her practice on adult clients seeking help with emotional, behavioral, and life-transition concerns.
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Sheila frequently uses client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's own goals and experiences and focuses on listening, empathy, and building self-directed change. This approach helps people who need a safe space to name what matters and to clarify next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that identifies unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical strategies to shift them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and for building new coping habits. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to support stress reduction, improve attention, and create steadier emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sheila will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework, or steady support between longer meetings. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English