Sheila Funk-Jansen, LCSW, LISW

About Sheila

Sheila Funk-Jansen uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard times. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience and holds LCSW and LISW credentials. Sheila writes plainly and focuses on practical steps to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strains.

Her work often addresses family and parenting concerns alongside intimacy and communication issues. Sheila listens first to understand each person’s situation and priorities.

Background and approach

She meets people where they are and helps them take small, manageable steps forward. Techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy are used when they fit the person’s goals. This keeps sessions clear and goal-oriented.

Her background includes long-term work with anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and family conflict. That experience informs how she helps people facing life transitions, caregiving stress, blended family challenges, or major losses. She can help sort priorities and build coping strategies tailored to daily life.

Sessions mix practical skill-building with time to talk through feelings and patterns. Sheila pays attention to communication problems, control and codependency issues, and commitment or intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related stress, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.

Sheila practices in Iowa and offers sessions in English. Her work aims to make change feel doable, not overwhelming, and to help people discover resilience they already have.

How Sheila’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person first and shaping sessions around their priorities. It helps when someone needs time to tell their story and wants a supportive space to figure out next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is practical and skill-based. It looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Sheila treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to goals and preferences, then suggests techniques that match those aims. Together they check what’s working and adjust the plan over time.

Online sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video offers face-to-face connection while phone or text can feel more flexible for short check-ins or tight schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life’s changes and help people access regular support without long travel.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?

Sheila helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting issues, intimacy-related struggles, anger, career stress, and coping with life changes.

How would you describe her therapy style?

She uses a client-centered style that focuses on listening and meeting people where they are, combined with clear techniques from CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy when helpful.

What experience does she bring?

She has 25 years of clinical experience working with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and family conflict.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and practices in Iowa. License details include IL LCSW 149014820 and IA LISW 007836.

Which languages are offered and can she work with international clients?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

In what formats are sessions provided?

Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What should I do to begin?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 25 years
Licensed: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
Languages: English

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