About Sheila
Sheila Krieger is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She talks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone. Sheila emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support as people take steps toward change.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people build confidence and motivation. Sessions often include practical strategies for coping with addiction, handling trauma and abuse, and improving self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sheila adapts the pace and tools to each person’s situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Over a decade of practice in Michigan gives her experience with a wide range of concerns. That includes career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder.
Sheila also works with issues around body image, communication problems, and commitment struggles. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods. Those include acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior techniques, and emotionally-focused work for relationships and closeness.
She blends these to match what a person needs in session. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged across state lines for international clients. Sheila encourages clear, small goals and regular check-ins so progress stays visible and feels doable.
How specific approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values. Online, ACT sessions can focus on practical exercises and short at-home practices to reduce avoidance and build meaning.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. In remote sessions this approach supports learning new ways to connect and regulate emotions when stress or conflict arise.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, with the therapist offering attentive listening and gentle guidance. That style fits well with messaging and video work where pacing and empathy are the focus.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheila will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She often combines techniques and checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short updates, coaching-style support, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and sustain progress over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Oregon
- Languages
- English