About Sheila
Sheila Vaz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with six years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and mood concerns. Sheila approaches each person as the expert on their own life and aims to build on existing strengths to make change possible.
Sheila uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She listens for patterns that get in the way - like unhelpful thoughts, repeated behaviors, or stuck routines - and helps clients try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and aimed at skills you can use between meetings. Many people come for help with self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, or life transitions. Sheila also supports those facing trauma, obsessive habits, sleep or eating challenges, and concerns related to ADHD.
She works with issues that affect daily functioning, including work stress, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools. That means she centers the person's goals while offering concrete techniques to shift thoughts and behaviors.
Sheila aims to make therapy collaborative and goal-focused so progress feels relevant and doable. She speaks English and provides services from Texas. She frames therapy as a step-by-step process and encourages small experiments between sessions to test what helps.
The tone in her work is supportive, direct, and aimed at practical change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-first stance. Sheila focuses on understanding each person's goals and priorities, then follows the person's lead to identify what matters most. This style helps people feel heard and builds a foundation for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for worries, low mood, sleep and eating struggles, and habits tied to addictions or obsessive behaviors. CBT pairs short at-home exercises with in-session practice.
Finding the right approach is part of working together. Sheila collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their goals, values, and daily routine. She adjusts techniques over time and invites feedback so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, homework check-ins, and ongoing encouragement between longer meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care despite distance.
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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