About Sheila
Sheila Owens is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and low self-esteem. She supports adults facing life changes, grief, trauma, parenting strain, and challenges such as bipolar symptoms or anger. Her approach is practical and respectful, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more capable in day-to-day life.
Sheila brings eight years as an LCSW plus decades of prior work in mental health case management and coordination.
Background and approach
That combined background shapes a down-to-earth style. Sessions focus on clear goals, simple skills, and real steps people can use between meetings. Sheila uses somatic approaches alongside client-centered methods to connect body sensations with emotional experience.
She also draws from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is another tool she may use for processing painful memories. Her work emphasizes collaboration.
She listens first, then shapes a plan that fits each person’s needs and pace. Conversations are direct but compassionate, and practical homework or body-based practices are offered when helpful. Sheila practices in California and carries the credential LCSW, license number CA LCSW 115925.
Sessions are held in English and offered through video, phone, chat, or text messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels.
How approaches translate to online therapy
Sheila blends somatic work with client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. Somatic work focuses on noticing body sensations and using gentle body-based practices to ease stress and reconnect with the present; it can help when anxiety or trauma show up as physical tension. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and choices, creating space to talk and be heard while the therapist follows each person's lead. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches straightforward strategies to change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Sheila collaborates with each person to figure out which combination of methods fits their goals and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans as needs change so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to revisit short check-ins between sessions, or to use written check-ins when talking feels hard. The variety of formats supports flexible pacing and helps people try different ways of working that suit their daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English