About Sheila
Sheila Adams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with ten years of experience in mental health. She began her career helping people connected to the child welfare system and then moved into community mental health. Sheila works with adults on a range of concerns and brings a practical, problem-solving focus to sessions.
Sheila listens first to understand what is most urgent for each person. She uses straightforward conversation to identify small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on coping skills, behavior changes, and steps to reduce stress and overwhelm. Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, addictions, relationship concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, LGBT issues, family conflict, and ADHD. That variety shaped a flexible approach that combines evidence-based tools with what actually fits a person's life.
In practice Sheila blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness skills. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and EMDR when they fit a client's needs. The aim is to help people develop clearer routines, better emotion regulation, and steadier focus.
Sheila describes her style as solution-focused and collaborative. Many sessions are practical and goal directed, with room to talk through grief or trauma when needed. She encourages gradual steps and checks in on what is working between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. In practice this means the therapist reflects what matters to the client and helps them set goals that feel relevant to daily life. It can help with motivation, self-esteem, and decisions about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that maintain stress or anxiety. Sessions use practical exercises and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which helps with mood, worry, and attention challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and effective communication, which can be useful when stress, anger, or impulsivity interfere with everyday life.
Sheila will work with each person to find the best fit among these approaches. Figuring out what helps most is a collaborative process that considers goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily routines.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simple check-in without video, and chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or on-the-go support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or school schedules while keeping sessions focused on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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