Sheila Flipse , LCPC, LMHC

Sheila Flipse is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Nevada and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York with 30 years of experience. She accompanies people who are hurting and helps them move toward greater well-being in a calm, compassionate way. Sheila draws on long clinical experience and a practical style to guide conversations and problem solving.

Sheila's background includes work with a wide range of people and settings over several decades. She has helped people dealing with grief and loss, depression, anxiety and stress. Her past roles have included work with people who are homeless, older adults, those in prison, college students, and military-affiliated individuals. She has also taught on topics related to death and dying.

Her approach focuses on identifying what already helps a person and building on those strengths. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and motivational interviewing techniques to support change. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with attention to everyday life demands.

Sheila also addresses a broad set of concerns such as self-esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, addictions, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, career concerns, ADHD, and many more. She aims to help people find clearer ways to respond to difficult situations and build skills that fit their daily routines.

Outside of work she enjoys travel and volunteers in her community. She shares her home with a Shichon named Ozzie, who may sometimes be nearby during sessions as he adjusts to recent loss.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual's experience and aims to create a respectful space where the person leads the conversation. It helps people feel heard and discover their own solutions rather than following a set plan.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or improve sleep and daily functioning.

Motivational interviewing supports change by exploring a person's own reasons for wanting to make changes and building their confidence. It can be useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about steps they want to take.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Sheila will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences and may combine methods as the work evolves. That collaborative planning helps clarify short-term steps and longer-term goals.

Online sessions offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can serve for brief updates, homework review, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.