About Sheila
Sheila Hancock is a licensed clinical social worker based in Idaho who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She supports people coping with panic attacks, obsessive or compulsive patterns, and mood swings. Sheila aims to make beginning therapy simple and approachable for worried parents and busy adults.
She prefers short, practical sessions focused on what matters most to each person. Her style is compassionate and non-judgmental.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with clients to set small, achievable steps that ease day-to-day strain. She uses a mix of methods drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based work to address thoughts, feelings, and behavior. She also incorporates attachment-focused ideas to understand how relationships shape emotional responses.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when people need tools for strong emotions and impulsivity. With 11 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - she has supported people dealing with abandonment, codependency, family conflict, divorce and separation, and domestic violence aftermath. Her work also covers self-esteem struggles, guilt and shame, and problems with isolation or jealousy.
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Sheila helps clients build coping skills, identify unhelpful patterns, and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. She aims to help people find steadier balance and clearer direction in daily life.
Online approaches and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people clarify values and take small actions toward a more meaningful life despite difficult emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns affect emotional responses and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative search can include trying different methods and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let therapists see nonverbal cues and hold longer conversations, while phone sessions can work better when a lower bandwidth option or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get brief support when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English