About Sheila
Sheila Levine is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than three decades of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, mood struggles, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Sheila speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings that respect into every session. Conversations focus on strengths and small, doable changes. Sheila aims to make the process feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on methods that teach new ways of thinking and handling strong emotions. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful patterns and from dialectical behavior ideas to build emotion regulation skills. Mindfulness practices and short-term solution-focused steps are also part of her toolkit.
Over 33 years Sheila has worked with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood challenges, eating concerns, and the stress of life changes. She also supports issues related to gender identity and LGBT concerns, substance use, and problems with communication and codependency. Sessions are offered in English and she practices in Connecticut.
Sheila frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps each person choose the strategies that fit their goals and daily demands.
Therapeutic approaches applied online
Sheila commonly uses cognitive behavioral work to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related focus problems, and addictive behaviors by breaking issues into manageable steps.She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when anger, intense mood swings, or relationship stress get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Sheila will talk with each person about goals and everyday constraints, then suggest techniques that fit their style and schedule. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer conversations and skill work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for quick check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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