About Sheila
Sheila Gault is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and other life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what feels hard. Parents reading on a phone will find clear, direct support and practical steps to try between sessions.
Sheila draws on twenty years of experience working with adults on adjustment issues, trauma, domestic violence, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She uses an integrative style that mixes contemporary psychotherapy with mindfulness and life-affirming practices. Sessions focus on building awareness, coping skills, and small changes that add up over time. Her approach centers on treating each person as the expert in their own life.
She offers steady, nonjudgmental support and emphasizes empowerment and authentic living. Practical tools for managing sleep, anger, or addictive patterns are introduced when helpful. Sheila also attends to deeper meaning and purpose for people dealing with life transitions, end-of-life caregiving, or complicated grief.
She can guide conversations about family of origin issues, communication problems, and forgiveness in ways that respect each person’s pace. Therapy with her often blends cognitive-behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and mindfulness practices. These methods are used to lower distress and build skills for handling everyday challenges.
Sheila practices in Michigan and sees clients in English only.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sheila uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new, more helpful ways of thinking and behaving; this approach often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping skills. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that reduce reactivity and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Sheila will talk with a client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then suggest methods to try together. She checks in and adjusts the plan as needed so work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, chat can work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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