About Sheila
Dr. Sheila Gold helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting worries, addictions, grief, and self-esteem problems. She also supports people dealing with career stresses, depression, ADHD, intimacy issues, and life transitions.
Dr. Gold is a Louisiana-based clinician with 20 years of experience and holds an LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her style is warm and direct.
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different ways of responding.
How Sheila works
Many sessions include skill practice, straightforward feedback, and real-world planning. Dr. Gold uses approaches that encourage acceptance, clearer thinking, and stronger connection.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts without getting ruled by them. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking and develop new habits. Attachment-based and client-centered methods shape how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns.
These approaches help people understand how past relationships affect current interactions. Work often centers on communication, boundaries, and repairing trust. Practical needs are part of the work.
Parents may focus on routines, limits, or communication with co-parents. People coping with addiction, caregiving strain, or major loss get step-by-step coping plans. Sessions aim to leave people with specific, doable strategies they can try between meetings.
Sheila lists 11 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on valued goals and small committed steps toward them, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete tools to change them, a good fit for depression, anxiety, and problem behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, which can help with intimacy, family conflict, and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and how they prefer to work. That might mean mixing mindfulness, ACT exercises, and CBT tools over several sessions until the best plan emerges.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or fit short check-ins into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adjusting format to what fits daily life.
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