Hope Schaffrick, LICSW, LCSW

Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and life transitions. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. With 22 years of experience, she brings steady support for challenges like addiction, ADHD, career strain, and relationship difficulties.

Her work is warm and interactive. Sessions emphasize respectful, nonjudgmental conversation and hands-on strategies clients can try between meetings. She adapts her approach to each person instead of using the same plan for everyone.

Hope uses a mix of methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered principles. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, clarify values and goals, and strengthen emotional connection patterns that affect relationships and intimacy.

She has substantial experience with trauma and emotional abuse, and with many practical life concerns like parenting, aging, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. Hope also supports people exploring kink and alternative sex culture and those dealing with body image, commitment, and communication problems.

Hope holds an MA LICSW and a Connecticut LCSW and practices from Connecticut. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns affect current relationships and helps people build healthier ways of relating and connecting.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Hope will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques, adjust when something does not fit, and track progress over time.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports steady momentum between appointments by letting people use tools and homework in their everyday routines. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises from ACT, CBT, and attachment-based work to an online setting so clients get focused, practical help without changing how therapy itself works.