About Sheila
Sheila Brittain is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who blends warm listening with practical tools. She draws on six years as a practicing therapist and three decades in social services to support people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She uses approaches rooted in attachment work and client-centered care to help people understand how relationships shape daily life. Sheila also brings cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help with sleeping problems, anger, and coping skills.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward rather than clinical jargon-filled. Sheila often helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and issues tied to self-esteem or career strain.
She also supports those struggling with family of origin wounds, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress. Other areas she addresses include abandonment, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and isolation or loneliness.
In sessions she focuses on clear steps and practical changes. Conversations aim to identify patterns, try small experiments, and build new ways of relating to thoughts and emotions.
She presents options, listens for what matters, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. People meet with Sheila by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works from California as a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and conducts sessions in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
How attachment, CBT, and mindfulness translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape the way people connect now. Online sessions allow exploration of those patterns through focused conversations and practical exercises that translate well to video or text work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it often uses brief experiments and homework that clients can try between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept up in them, using short practices that can be guided in a live call or via messaging.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Sheila treats this as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. That way the therapy stays practical and tuned to what helps most.
Online formats make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life. Video calls create face-to-face conversations when travel is difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send brief updates or process issues between appointments. Together these options offer flexibility while keeping the focus on skill building and clearer ways of coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English