About Sheila
Sheila Flipse is a licensed counselor with three decades of experience helping people through hard times. She holds a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential in Nevada and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in New York. Sheila focuses on practical support delivered with kindness and steady attention.
Sheila started life in Liverpool and lived in Canada before moving to the United States for college and graduate school. That varied background informs her work and her ability to relate to different life stories.
How Sheila works
She previously taught a college course on death and dying and has worked in settings that included homelessness services, corrections, higher education, and military-related contexts. Her areas of focus include grief and loss, depression, anxiety and stress, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Sheila also helps people facing compassion fatigue, caregiver strain, addictions, relationship and family problems, and career or financial stress.
She brings experience addressing trauma, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD-related concerns. Sheila uses approaches rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing alongside client-centered work and solution-focused and narrative techniques. Sessions emphasize identifying what already helps, building useful skills, and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns.
The emphasis is on clear, doable steps rather than abstract theory. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. She asks clients to honor scheduled appointments and notes that her dog Ozzie may sometimes be present as he adjusts to recent loss.
It would be her honor to walk alongside someone seeking steadier ground.
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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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Sheila uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns. CBT focuses on clear steps and practice to shift how someone thinks and acts in everyday situations.She also draws on motivational interviewing to support people facing change, such as addiction, caregiver burnout, or career decisions. This approach helps people clarify their goals, weigh options, and find their own reasons to move forward in ways that feel doable.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Sheila will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The work is collaborative and paced to the person's readiness and circumstances.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper sessions when visual connection helps, phone calls are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or text work well for brief touchpoints and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose the way of meeting that feels most comfortable.
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