Sheba Shiver, LMFT

Sheba Shiver is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who focuses on helping people regain balance when life feels overwhelming. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictive behaviors, and sudden life changes. Her style is straightforward and collaborative so people can feel heard and start making changes quickly.

Sheba begins by building a strong working relationship and learning how a person relates to others. That first step helps her and the client decide what to work on and how to proceed. She emphasizes clear communication and setting healthy boundaries in relationships as practical tools for everyday life.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, existential ideas about meaning, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. She uses these methods to help people change unhelpful thinking, notice patterns, and make choices that fit their values. Sessions include talking, reflecting, and trying small experiments between meetings.

With 15 years of experience, Sheba aims to meet people where they are without claiming to have all the answers. She listens to each person’s unique story and adjusts her work to what they find useful. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Sheba provides sessions in English and works remotely with people in California. Her practice supports a range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and coping after trauma or loss.

How Sheba Adapts Therapy Online

The work often starts with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT helps people practice new responses to stressful situations and test what works in daily life. Existential Therapy is another strand she draws on to help clients consider meaning, values, and choices when life feels uncertain. That approach is useful for people facing big decisions or feeling stuck in a life transition.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheba will explore a person's goals, preferences, and practical needs, and then shape sessions around what seems most useful. She regularly adjusts methods if something isn't helping so the work stays relevant and doable.

Online therapy offers a range of practical options: video calls for face-to-face work, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter focused check-ins, and let people choose what feels most comfortable for different kinds of work.