About Hope
Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult life transitions. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for relationship struggles, parenting concerns, grief, addiction issues, and questions around intimacy and sexual identity. People reach out when life feels overwhelming or when they need clearer ways to cope.
With 22 years of practice, she blends practical strategies with attentive listening. Hope uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small meaningful steps. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on real-life goals, skills you can try between meetings, and gentle reflection about patterns that keep causing pain.
She avoids labels and treats each person as an individual, not a diagnosis. Hope also uses attachment-informed methods to look at how early relationships affect current problems. That perspective can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment wounds, blended-family strains, and communication problems.
When needed, she brings in elements of dialectical work for intense emotions and crisis moments. Based in Connecticut, Hope holds the LICSW and LCSW credentials. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based options.
To begin, a simple questionnaire and scheduling step connects people to an initial meeting where priorities and a plan are set together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Hope often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then take small actions that match their values. That approach can help with anxiety, depression, and big life decisions. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to examine how early relationship patterns influence current connections and intimacy. This work helps when abandonment, communication problems, or recurring relationship pain keep coming up. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Hope collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and preferences. Early sessions focus on priorities and testing approaches so the plan can be adjusted as needed. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be a quicker way to check in or useful when video would use too much bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get brief support, homework ideas, or check-ins between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving even when schedules change.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Massachusetts, Utah, Maine, Connecticut
- Languages
- English