About Hope
Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She greets clients with a calm, respectful tone and focuses on practical steps to make daily life easier. Her approach is approachable and straightforward for someone worried and searching for help.
Hope brings 22 years of experience in clinical practice and holds LICSW and LCSW credentials. She has worked with people facing trauma and emotional abuse, addictive behaviors, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and attention challenges like ADHD.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with career strain, intimacy questions, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. Her work blends body-centered methods and talk therapy. Somatic techniques help people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn simple ways to regulate physical responses.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different, more effective patterns. Attachment-based and client-centered ways of working shape the relationship in sessions. These methods focus on building trust, listening without judgement, and tailoring the pace to each person.
Hope aims to create a space where clients feel heard and can try new ways of responding to old problems. Sessions are offered from Connecticut and include options that fit busy lives. She meets people where they are and collaborates on goals that match each person’s values and daily reality.
If a practical, steady approach feels right, she offers guidance and support to move forward.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Hope uses somatic methods and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice how stress shows up in their bodies and connect actions to personal values. Somatic work invites simple body awareness and breathing practices to reduce tension and support feeling steadier during hard moments. ACT helps people name what matters, accept difficult feelings, and take small steps toward meaningful goals.Attachment-based and client-centered elements guide how she relates in sessions. These approaches focus on building trust, listening closely, and shaping the pace to each person. Finding the right mix is a collaborative process - the therapist and client try approaches together and adjust based on what helps most for the client’s goals and comfort.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Remote sessions let people join from home, fit appointments around work or family demands, and use brief messaging between sessions when helpful. Hope aims to make therapy practical and accessible while working with each person’s needs and schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Massachusetts, Utah, Maine, Connecticut
- Languages
- English