Sheila Wassell
Creative humanistic counsellor focused on practical change
About Sheila
Sheila Wassell is a humanistic counsellor with 18 years of experience. She works in an eclectic way and uses creative media to help people talk about what matters to them. Sheila is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated BACP, and follows their ethical guidance.
Sheila offers a calm, empathetic space where people can unpack stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She helps people find more control and a greater sense of personal autonomy.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on everyday problems such as sleeping, eating, work stress, anger and self‑esteem. Her practice also supports people facing grief, addiction, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue and issues linked to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Sheila works with relationship and intimacy-related worries, communication problems, and challenges connected to parenting and family life.
She also assists people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain and aging issues. Sheila draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ways of working, alongside client-centred and mindfulness approaches. She adapts methods to suit each person and often brings art or other creative tools into sessions when useful.
The focus is practical: small steps, clearer thinking and better coping in day-to-day life. Sheila offers sessions in English and can work with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her approach is collaborative, aiming to help people discover workable changes and regain confidence in handling life’s difficulties.
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How Sheila works
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Sessions & fees
How Sheila’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice attachment habits and try new ways of relating to themselves and others, useful for anxiety and intimacy-related issues. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. In that approach the therapist listens without judgement, reflects feelings back and supports the person to set their own pace and goals, which can suit many concerns including stress and depression. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and introduces simple practical techniques to change unhelpful cycles; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Sheila will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together they will choose which approaches to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adapt the style and pace as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face contact and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to maintain regular appointments and to use therapeutic tools between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
