About Hope
Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people coping with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and life changes. She brings 22 years of clinical experience and a calm, respectful manner to each session. Hope focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
She aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first visit. Hope uses a mix of evidence-informed ways of working to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and build new routines. She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people live with difficult feelings while pursuing meaningful goals. Her style is warm and interactive.
Conversations are tailored so clients can try out new skills between sessions. Hope avoids stigmatizing labels and meets people where they are in their lives. She has worked with people dealing with relationship and intimacy problems, parenting stress, grief, addiction, career concerns, and the effects of trauma and emotional abuse.
She also addresses concerns related to attachment, autism, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Connecticut while accepting international clients. Hope supports clients in finding realistic strategies for managing stress, improving communication, and building better routines that make daily life easier.
How Hope’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting trapped by them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, consistent steps toward a life that matters to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and how early connections affect current trust and closeness, which can help with intimacy and communication concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Hope will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend strategies to try. She adapts methods to fit real life so clients can test what helps between sessions and bring questions back to the next meeting.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and practicing skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing support between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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