About Sheila
Sheila Funk-Jansen brings a client-centered, strengths-based approach to her work as a licensed clinical social worker.
Background and approach
With 25 years of experience and dual licensure as an LCSW and LISW, Sheila focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, career stress, and major life transitions. She meets clients where they are and emphasizes resilience and growth through practical skills and reflective exploration.
Her practice integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Solution-Focused techniques to set concrete goals and build momentum, and Motivational Interviewing to support meaningful change. Sheila has also worked with issues such as addiction, family of origin dynamics, caregiving strain, blended family challenges, and coping after loss or disaster.
She adapts her methods to each person’s circumstances and works collaboratively to create a realistic plan for moving forward. Licensed in Iowa and Illinois, Sheila values the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for progress and seeks to provide an open, nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore difficulties and develop greater resilience.
Approaches that translate to effective online care
Sheila commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her practice. CBT helps clients identify patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress and teaches practical strategies for shifting those patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on clients' strengths and concrete goals, encouraging small, achievable steps that build momentum and improve coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheila partners with each person to explore which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts techniques over time so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it simpler to access regular support while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments, and they allow licensed professionals to deliver structured CBT exercises, goal-focused planning, and motivational conversations in ways that fit daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English