Hope Schaffrick , LICSW, LCSW

Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with clients facing stress, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and questions about intimacy and identity. Hope brings 22 years of experience and a compassionate, down-to-earth style to sessions.

She blends straightforward talk with practical tools. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on doable steps to reduce distress. Sessions often include skills practice, perspective shifts, and attention to patterns that keep problems alive.

Hope uses approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address thoughts and behavior. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships and self-understanding. Dialectical behavior therapy strategies are used when people need emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills.

Hope earned an MA and holds LICSW and LCSW credentials. She practices in Connecticut and accepts international clients who prefer remote work. Therapy may include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client needs.

Hope aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their goals and try new ways of coping. She frames change as a collaborative effort and helps people build routines and habits that support daily life.

Many clients come for help with grief, career transitions, ADHD-related struggles, caregiving stress, or body image and self-esteem concerns. Hope tailors treatment plans to each person’s situation and priorities.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Hope commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifying personal values to guide action, which can help with stress, life changes, and persistent worries.

She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships and self-understanding. Attachment-informed work looks at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect current feelings and behavior. Client-centered practice means conversations are paced and guided by the client’s priorities, with the therapist offering reflection and support rather than direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hope will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions that resemble in-person meetings, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging provide shorter check-ins or steps between longer sessions, and text-based work lets people reflect in written form. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.