Sheila Hancock, LCSW

Sheila Hancock, LCSW, helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps that reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Her manner is calm and straightforward, aimed at making conversations feel easier to start.

She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a common tool she draws on to identify unhelpful thinking and build new skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy also shape her work when values, meaning, or relationship patterns are central issues.

Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Sheila helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and practice coping skills between sessions. She explains interventions in simple language and checks in about what feels useful over time.

With eleven years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, she brings steady clinical experience without jargon. Her background supports work on panic and mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive patterns, trauma and abuse, and issues like codependency or abandonment concerns.

Sheila frames progress as a step-by-step process. She helps people build resilience, strengthen self-esteem, and repair relationship habits. The focus is on tools you can use in day-to-day life and on finding small changes that add up.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include homework exercises, thought records, and step-by-step skill practice that can be discussed over video or messaging to reinforce progress.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action despite difficult feelings. In remote sessions ACT work often uses values exercises and behavioral experiments that can be tried between appointments and reviewed in follow-ups.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and translate insights into everyday interactions at home or work.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try, adjusting the plan as goals and preferences become clearer. This collaborative process helps tailor techniques to what feels most helpful.

Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging makes brief progress notes or coping reminders easy to send. Together these options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule.