Hope Schaffrick, LICSW, LCSW

Washington · 22 years in practice

Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and the everyday challenges of parenting and career change.

License and registration

LICSW, Washington: LW60915818 · expires January 2027
LICSW, Massachusetts: LICSW121964 · expires January 2028
LCSW, Utah: 12919117-3501 · expires September 2026
LCSW, Maine: LC21472 · expires July 2026
LCSW, Connecticut: 16737 · expires January 2027
NPI: 1477676377 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 22
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Hope

Hope Schaffrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and the everyday challenges of parenting and career change. She brings a calm, respectful manner to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings. With 22 years of experience, Hope blends different perspectives to match each person's needs.

She uses Jungian therapy ideas alongside cognitive-behavioral and attachment-informed practices to look at patterns, thoughts, and relational habits.

Background and approach

Sessions are conversational and aimed at clarifying goals and testing small changes. Hope has worked with people managing trauma, emotional abuse, addiction, grief, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and intimacy issues. She also addresses concerns like body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the stresses that come with blended families and adoption situations.

Her approach attends both to immediate coping skills and to deeper themes that repeat across a person’s life. Hope describes her style as warm and interactive. She values compassion, respect, and straightforward talk rather than labels.

Together with each client she shapes a plan that fits their situation and goals. Clinically credentialed as LICSW and LCSW, Hope practices from Connecticut and works with people in English. She supports a mix of therapeutic goals from short-term problem solving to longer personal exploration.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Hope lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
LGBT
Relationship issues
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
Hearing impaired
HIV / AIDS
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Immigration issues
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Personality disorders
Phobias
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sex addiction
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Somatization
Traumatic brain injury
Trichotillomania
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Hope names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work

Hope integrates Jungian-informed work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in ways that translate well to online formats. Jungian-informed therapy looks at recurring life patterns and symbolic themes to help people make sense of difficult feelings and life shifts; it can be useful for people seeking deeper meaning or who notice repeating relationship or life patterns.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying what matters most to a person and practicing small actions that reflect those values while learning skills to tolerate uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her approach and looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and communication, which can help address intimacy and relationship struggles.

Hope treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to test methods, adjust techniques, and pick tools that match their goals and preferences rather than assuming a single path from the start.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be used for short check-ins or if someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Hope help with?

Hope works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, addiction, grief, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and career stress.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

She uses a warm, interactive approach that mixes depth-oriented and practical methods. Conversations are tailored to each person and include goal setting and concrete steps to try between sessions.

What is her professional background?

Hope has 22 years of clinical experience and a history of working with people who have experienced trauma, emotional abuse, and complex life stressors.

Where is Hope licensed and practicing?

She practices from Connecticut and holds the credentials MA LICSW and CT LCSW as listed in her profile.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.

What formats are offered for sessions?

Hope offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and the therapist arrangement; sessions operate on a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Hope?

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