Hope Schaffrick, LICSW, LCSW

Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She supports people coping with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, and attention-related challenges. Hope presents a calm, respectful presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.

She draws on 22 years of experience across clinical settings to shape sessions that fit each person. Hope blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based and attachment-informed ideas to address thoughts, feelings, and relationships. She adapts conversations and exercises to what feels most useful for each person.

Sessions are interactive and collaborative. Hope listens closely, notices patterns that cause pain, and helps people try new ways of responding. She avoids stigmatizing labels and keeps the work grounded in real-life goals like better sleep, clearer communication, or steadier mood.

People come to her for a broad range of concerns including grief, addiction, career stress, chronic health and caregiving strain, body image, and questions around sexuality and kink. Hope also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment struggles, and blended family dynamics.

Her training includes both clinical social work practice and long-term direct work with people who have experienced trauma. She works from Connecticut and offers services that can include international clients. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy flow to match and schedule based on availability.

How Hope’s approaches fit online care

Hope commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions toward those values even when feelings are hard. CBT looks at unhelpful thought patterns and teaches practical skills to change behaviors and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hope collaborates with each person to pick or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress or obstacles appear.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when needed. Some people find video helpful for face-to-face interaction, while others prefer audio-only meetings for a shorter, lower-bandwidth check-in. Hope aims to help people apply therapeutic skills in day-to-day situations and adapt sessions so they suit real routines rather than disrupt them.