About Sheila
Sheila George offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and big life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with 12 years of experience. Sheila aims to make first steps feel less overwhelming and more manageable.
Sheila creates a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful experiences. She listens carefully and helps clients put words to what feels confusing or heavy.
How Sheila works
Sessions focus on close attention to each person's goals and what matters most to them. She uses approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts, manage intense emotions, and build practical coping skills. That can include cognitive behavioral techniques, skills from dialectical behavior work, and client-centered conversation to clarify values and choices.
Mindfulness and motivational strategies are added when they fit a person's goals. Her background includes work with people coping with trauma, substance use concerns, mood disorders, and relationship and parenting stress. She also supports issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, end-of-life concerns, and challenges tied to military service.
Sheila aims for straightforward, doable steps in therapy. She helps people develop tools they can use between sessions. Progress is paced to fit each person's life and goals, with attention to real-world changes that make daily life easier.
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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
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and helping clients discover their own goals and solutions. It centers the conversation on each person's values and what they want to change, which helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot thinking patterns that increase stress or low mood and then try different ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday problems because it breaks concerns into concrete steps and experiments.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. These skills are often helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by strong feelings or who want steadier day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheila will talk with each person about goals, try techniques together, and adjust plans based on what works. The process is paced to match a client's needs and preferences rather than following one fixed path.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for more in-depth, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter space is easier to arrange. Live chat and text-based messaging fit brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when a written exchange feels most helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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