About Hope
Hope Schaffrick helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She greets clients with a warm, direct approach and aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable. Hope uses plain language and practical steps so conversations don't get bogged down in jargon.
Hope holds a Master of Arts and practices as a LICSW and LCSW with 22 years of overall experience. She sees people who struggle with trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, anger, self-esteem, and a range of relationship and intimacy concerns.
How Hope works
She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, career transitions, and chronic health or caregiving stress. Her work draws on methods like cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance-focused work, attachment perspectives, dialectical skills, and client-centered conversation. Sessions tend to focus on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
Hope adapts her style to what each person needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. She has experience addressing additional issues such as ADHD, bipolar concerns, body image, and adoption or foster care questions. Hope is comfortable discussing less common topics too, including kink and alternative sex culture, blended family dynamics, and end-of-life caregiving strain.
People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and an emphasis on practical tools. The first meetings usually clarify goals and outline a simple plan. From there Hope works with clients to track progress and adjust steps so growth feels steady and realistic.
Hope lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Hope works with
The areas below are the ones Hope selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
How Hope's approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes make choices feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people understand how past connections affect current trust, closeness, and communication.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Hope works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Early sessions focus on clarifying goals and trying approaches that fit, then adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and do exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to send brief updates, get space to reflect between messages, or fit a session into a busy day. These options help make ongoing work more practical for many lives.
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