About Sheila
Sheila Brittain is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She draws on six years of clinical practice and more than three decades of social services experience behind the scenes. Sheila aims to help people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and major life changes in straightforward, practical ways.
She uses several therapy styles to meet people where they are. She focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships through attachment-based ideas.
How Sheila works
She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In sessions Sheila helps with a wide range of issues. These include self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, anger, career questions, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses trauma and abuse, family of origin matters, abandonment, and end-of-life concerns such as hospice and grief work. Her approach is collaborative and relational. She keeps a curious mind and an open heart and invites clients to discover new ways of relating and coping.
Treatment centers on practical changes people can make in daily life and on building insight about feelings and patterns. Sheila offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is done after a short matching questionnaire.
Sheila lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sheila works with
The areas below are the ones Sheila selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Sheilas Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why certain connections feel safe or threatening and can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, and family of origin concerns. Client-centered therapy centers the persons experience and pacing; the therapist follows the clients lead and provides empathy and reflection to help them make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheila will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That teamwork helps match techniques to what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits, phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible, live chat offers a quicker real-time check-in, and text messaging supports brief reflections and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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