About Sheila
Sheila Flipse is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Nevada. She brings 30 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who are hurting or struggling find clearer ways forward. Sheila speaks plainly and listens carefully to understand each person’s needs before planning next steps.
Her background includes work with people in shelters, correctional settings, college campuses, and the military. She has spent years supporting those facing grief, loss, depression, anxiety, and stress.
Background and approach
Sheila also helps with issues such as self-esteem, addiction, relationship problems, parenting strain, and life transitions. Sheila favors practical, skill-based work. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses.
Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when someone needs help finding the will to change. Sessions aim to build healthier thinking, stronger coping skills, and clearer goals. Sheila will collaborate on techniques that fit day-to-day life and help people apply them between meetings.
She uses straightforward language and gentle encouragement in the room. Outside of practice she has taught college courses on death and dying and volunteers in her community. Sheila enjoys travel and time with her dog, Ozzie.
She welcomes people who want steady, experienced support while working through difficult losses and life changes.
How her approaches translate to online care
Sheila commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and supports steady progress when motivation feels low.Sheila treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will listen to your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together so it matches your needs and preferences. The aim is to pick methods that fit your life and feel useful between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be a helpful way to share quick updates, get support between sessions, or have shorter check-ins that fit a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English