About Sheila
Sheila Bagshaw is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem and life changes. Sheila uses clear, respectful language and aims to make first steps feel manageable for anyone reaching out.
She takes a client-centred approach, which means conversations and goals are shaped around what matters to each person. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help with grounding and staying present through hard moments.
Background and approach
Solution-focused ideas are used to identify small, practical steps that move people forward. Sessions are tailored to an individual's needs rather than following a fixed script. Sheila listens for everyday patterns and helps clients notice small changes that add up over time.
She works collaboratively to set realistic goals and checkpoints. Her experience covers a broad range of concerns beyond the core issues of stress and anxiety. These include parenting strains, ADHD-related challenges, grief after loss, body image, caregiver stress, relationship communication problems and difficulties after separation.
Sheila is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and speaks English. She encourages people to take their time when starting therapy and to ask questions about how sessions are structured and what to expect. Practical arrangements such as session format and scheduling are agreed together so therapy fits into everyday life.
Sheila aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and can make gradual, useful changes.
How Sheila’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of each session. The counsellor follows the client’s lead, listens carefully and helps people make sense of their feelings and priorities. This approach suits worries about relationships, grief and low self-esteem because it begins with what feels most important to the individual.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus. These techniques can help with anxiety, stress and coping with intrusive thoughts by offering short, practical tools to use between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Sheila will talk with clients about their goals, try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful. That shared decision-making ensures the approach matches personal needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when sessions happen. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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