About Sheila
Sheila Stewart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She brings 17 years of hands-on experience helping people sort through anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. Sheila focuses on practical support and steady guidance during hard life transitions.
Sheila uses a client-centered style that keeps the person in charge of their goals. She combines that with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when useful.
How Sheila works
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolkit to help with mood, motivation, and self-regulation. In a typical session she listens to what matters most to the client and then offers clear, doable strategies. That can mean learning ways to manage strong emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, improving communication, or building routines that support mood.
Sheila also addresses concerns like parenting stress, blended family issues, body image, and career decisions. Sheila has worked with adults and adolescents on challenges from trauma and abuse to bipolar mood concerns and ADHD. She also helps people facing fertility stress, caregiver burden, codependency, and the fallout of divorce or abandonment.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Clients set the pace while she provides structure and practical steps. Many people come for help with coping skills, clearer thinking, and healthier patterns in relationships.
Sheila lists 6 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Sheila blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in ways that translate well to online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's goals and pace, offering a supportive space for people to explore what matters to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy works on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier communication, useful for strong mood swings and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheila collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try techniques, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions let people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, note-taking, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into work, school, or family routines.
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