About Sheila
Sheila Cuomo, MD, LCPC, is a Maryland-based therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, and mood-related concerns. Sheila aims to create a calm, respectful space for people to begin sorting through difficult feelings.
Her work centers on practical steps and steady support. She listens for the patterns that keep someone stuck and helps them try different ways to respond. Sessions often include short-term strategies for panic and anxiety, alongside deeper work for grief or trauma.
Background and approach
Sheila takes a faith-sensitive stance when it matters to a client, adapting conversations to fit each person’s values. She emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and she offers tools to reach them. Progress is paced to what feels manageable for the individual.
Many people come to her for help with isolation, attachment worries, and obsessive or compulsive thoughts. She also supports those dealing with self-harm urges, process addictions, body image concerns, and seasonal mood shifts. Her experience spans a wide range of mood disorders and related issues.
In sessions she blends evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a warm, empathetic tone. That means working on concrete skills while also making space for deeper emotional recovery. Her aim is to help people build resilience and clearer ways of moving forward.
Practical approaches for online care and phobia work
Sheila uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. One common approach involves exposure-based strategies that help people gently face feared situations in small, manageable steps to reduce avoidance and panic. Another approach emphasizes cognitive work to spot and shift thoughts that fuel anxiety, helping people test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviors.Choosing an approach is a team effort. Sheila works collaboratively to match techniques to a person's goals, pace, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made or new concerns appear, so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible in flexible ways. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues for practice work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or quick coping reminders between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines, while keeping the focus on practical steps toward feeling better.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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