Sheila Levine
Compassionate therapist offering practical, skills-based care
LMFT Connecticut
- Experience
- 33 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Languages
- English
About Sheila
Sheila Levine is a Connecticut-licensed therapist with over three decades of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship challenges, and anger.
Background and approach
She draws on a practical, strengths-based perspective that recognizes each person as the expert on their own life while offering tools to address persistent difficulties such as depression, trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, eating issues, and mood disorders. Her long practice also includes support for clients facing ADHD, bipolar conditions, and challenges around self-esteem and career transitions.
Her approach blends structured, evidence-informed methods with collaborative listening. Sheila uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness-based techniques to help clients build coping strategies and manage intense emotions.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy inform her work when clients need focused planning or renewed motivation for change. She emphasizes practical strategies and compassionate guidance to help people move forward.
Sheila holds an LMFT credential (CT LMFT 549) and offers services in English throughout Connecticut. New clients are welcomed to begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire to arrange sessions according to her availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sheila integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and compulsive patterns, while DBT provides practical emotion-regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills for managing intense feelings and relationship stress.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help clients build present-moment awareness and stress reduction, and uses Motivational Interviewing when clients need help clarifying goals and strengthening their commitment to change. Together these approaches offer concrete strategies and short-term planning as well as skills for long-term coping. Sheila approaches selection of methods collaboratively, working with each client to determine which combination best fits their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access care from home. These flexible formats allow for skills practice between meetings, timely check-ins, and continued progress even when in-person visits are not practical.
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Experience
33+ years
Licensed
Connecticut
Languages
English