Sheila Cano, LPCC

Sheila Cano is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California who uses down-to-earth approaches to help people manage everyday struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 12 years of practice to sessions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and substance concerns while also addressing relationship and family issues.

Sheila often starts by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. She then works with them to set clear, manageable goals. Conversations are practical and grounded in techniques that people can use between sessions to notice patterns and make small changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based approaches are among the methods she uses to help with troublesome thoughts, avoidance, and interpersonal strain. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is also part of her toolkit for people working through painful memories. Sheila adapts these approaches to each person’s pace and needs.

Sheila pays attention to how stress shows up in daily life - sleep trouble, anger, or feeling isolated - and helps people build routines to reduce that load. She also supports those coping with grief, forgiveness, guilt, or the aftermath of infidelity and domestic violence.

Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription-based model for sessions can be canceled at any time, and international clients are not accepted. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Sheila uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. CBT often helps with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and patterns that make daily life harder. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is about noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and committing to values-based action; it can be useful for stress, life transitions, and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and can help with abandonment concerns, trust, and communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheila will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, treating the process as a collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping treatment focused and practical.