About Sheila
Sheila Levine is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than three decades of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit into a busy life.
Background and approach
Sheila encourages people to use their existing strengths when they start making changes. Sheila often starts by listening to the story a person brings and identifying one or two small goals to work toward.
Sessions focus on skills people can practice between appointments, such as coping tools for anger, strategies to manage anxiety, and steps to address substance use. She uses straightforward methods so people can see progress week to week.
Her work blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and motivational techniques to help people shift thinking and build new habits. Sheila also draws on solution-focused methods to keep the work goal-oriented and practical.
When needed she uses DBT-informed skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She has worked in Connecticut for many years and brings 33 years of clinical experience to each session.
Sheila aims to create a calm, focused space where clients can set realistic goals and test new ways of coping. Her approach is collaborative, with clear steps and regular review of progress.
People who choose Sheila will find a steady, goal-minded clinician who prioritizes doable strategies. Her style is direct but warm, intended to help people move through tough moments and build more stable day-to-day routines.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Sheila commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which often fits well into video or phone sessions where worksheets and behavior plans can be reviewed together. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills that a person can practice between contacts and report back during brief check-ins.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people clarify their goals and find personal reasons to change. That style is conversational and collaborative, so decisions about which approach to use are made together based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Sheila will check in about what feels most useful and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be more convenient or use less bandwidth, live chat can work for focused check-ins, and messaging supports short, ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English