About Sheila
Sheila Mansfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor who builds practical, down-to-earth therapy. She offers straightforward help for anxiety, depression, relationship stress, parenting strain, and life transitions. Her style is direct but warm, and she focuses on skills people can use between sessions.
With 22 years of experience, Sheila draws on approaches that center the person and target unhelpful thinking. She uses Client-Centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break patterns of worry and low mood by changing thoughts and behaviors. Solution-Focused work identifies small changes that lead to quicker relief and clearer next steps. Sheila has worked across many settings and with many life situations, including adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, workplace problems, and grief or loss.
She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem or life purpose. Her experience includes working with veterans and addressing seasonal mood shifts such as SAD. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical tools, and improved day-to-day coping.
Sheila partners with people to set priorities and practice skills that fit their routines. She explains strategies in plain language and checks in about what is or isn’t working. Based in Missouri, Sheila offers therapy in English and uses flexible session formats.
She aims to make therapy manageable for busy lives and to help people move toward steadier emotional footing.
Using client-centered and solution-focused care online
Sheila uses Client-Centered Therapy to place the person's experience at the heart of the work. That means listening closely, reflecting what matters, and letting goals emerge from the client's priorities rather than imposing a plan. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a steady therapeutic relationship.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is also a common part of her work. CBT breaks down patterns of thought and action that keep anxiety or depression going. It teaches practical exercises and small behavioral steps people can practice between sessions to see real change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheila talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they try methods that fit the person’s life and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and everyday routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English