Sheila Flipse

Sheila Flipse is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of counseling experience. She comes alongside people who are hurting and walks with them toward greater health and wholeness. Sheila aims to be kind and direct, helping clients learn skills they can use right away.

Sheila has worked in many settings over the years, including with people who are homeless, with older adults, in prisons, on college campuses, and with military populations. She has particular experience supporting grief and loss, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also helps people build self-esteem, manage anger, and cope with life transitions.

Her style blends cognitive behavioral approaches with motivational interviewing. Sheila helps people spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and strengthen what already works. Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that add up over time.

Sheila developed and taught a college course called Death and Dying, which informs her work with end-of-life concerns and hospice-related issues. She also brings experience addressing relationship challenges, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress.

Outside of therapy she enjoys travel, board games, and time with her Shichon, Ozzie. She is a Nevada clinician and brings a calm, steady presence to conversations about difficult topics. Her approach is goal-oriented but respectful of each person’s pace.

How her approaches translate to online care

Sheila uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and practice different responses. CBT works well for worries, stress, anger, and depression by breaking problems into manageable steps and testing new behaviors.

She also uses motivational interviewing, which focuses on a person’s own reasons for change and builds motivation in a gentle way. This approach is useful for addictions, behavior change goals, and when someone feels stuck.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Sheila collaborates with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. She will adjust strategies as progress is made and as needs change.

Session formats should be confirmed before booking. The therapist’s biography notes video chat, phone calls, and live text chat as options, so check the listing to confirm which are available when you schedule. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow short check-ins, and remove travel time, which helps people keep momentum toward their goals.