Founder of Glow In Therapy
Gloria Osborne-Sheeler, LCSW
Helping Women Heal the Patterns That No Longer Serve Them
15+ Years
Clinical experience
Bilingual
English & Spanish therapy
Licensed LCSW
Licensed in California
Virtual Therapy
Throughout California
My Story
Healing Changed the Way I See Everything.
Not because my life suddenly became easier.
But because I stopped believing I had to carry everything alone.
For a long time, I understood healing the way many women do. I thought it meant becoming stronger. Trying harder. Being more patient. Doing better. Keeping everyone else happy. Looking like I had everything together.
But the more I grew—both personally and professionally—the more I began to understand healing differently.
I started to see that many of the patterns we struggle with as adults didn't appear out of nowhere. They were shaped by the relationships, experiences, expectations, and roles we learned much earlier in life.
What may feel like a problem today may have once been a way of protecting yourself.
That realization changed the way I understood my own healing—and eventually, the way I came to understand the women I work with.
Personal & Professional
My Own Journey Deepened My Work
As a First-Generation Afro-Latina and proud Panameña, I understand how culture, family expectations, and generational experiences can quietly shape the way we move through the world.
I also know healing from the inside.
My own journey has included navigating mental health struggles, recovery from addiction, difficult relationships, and the work of learning how to care for myself after spending so much time being strong for everyone else.
Those experiences have given me a deeply personal understanding of something I now see in so many of the women I work with: how easy it is to carry responsibility while wondering if there’s room for your own needs, too. How easy it is to become the person everyone else depends on while slowly losing touch with yourself.
My own healing has taught me that boundaries aren’t rejection. Rest isn’t something you have to earn. And choosing yourself doesn’t mean loving the people around you any less.
Those lessons weren’t things I learned only from a textbook. They were things I had to practice in my own life—and still practice today.
They continue to shape the way I live, parent, love, set boundaries, care for myself, and show up for the women who trust me with their stories.
BENEATH THE SURFACE
Our Patterns Always Make Sense
Over the years, I’ve sat with hundreds of women who came to therapy for different reasons—anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, people-pleasing, burnout, heartbreak, difficulty setting boundaries, and major life transitions.
Their stories were different. But underneath them, I often saw familiar patterns.
“I learned to earn love by being helpful.”
“I learned to stay connected by keeping the peace.”
“I learned to protect myself by staying perfect.”
"Many had spent years believing they needed to earn love by being helpful."
These weren’t character flaws. They were patterns that once served a purpose.
And when we begin understanding those patterns with curiosity and compassion instead of judgment, something can shift.
We get to decide which patterns still belong in the life we’re creating now—and which ones we’re ready to leave behind.
My Approach
The Kind of Therapist I Strive to Be
When women begin therapy with me, I don’t spend our time looking for what’s “wrong.”
I’m listening for what makes sense.
I’m paying attention to the beliefs, experiences, relationships, and moments that quietly shaped the way you learned to move through life.
Because I’ve found that when we understand why we’re struggling, it becomes easier to meet ourselves with compassion instead of judgment.
Therapy isn’t about becoming someone different.
It’s about understanding the parts of you that learned to stay quiet, stay strong, overachieve, overgive, or carry everything alone.
And helping those parts discover they don’t have to work so hard to keep you safe anymore.
Therapeutic Approach
How I Work
Every woman brings a different story into therapy. That’s why I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.
Our work together is collaborative and tailored to your experiences, relationships, culture, and goals.
We’ll make space for what you’re experiencing now while also exploring the patterns beneath it—so we’re not only helping you cope, but understanding what keeps those patterns going and creating meaningful change.
The goal isn’t to fit you into a particular approach. It’s to bring together what makes the most sense for you—and the life and relationships you want to create.
My approach integrates:
Trauma-informed therapy
Attachment-based perspectives
Inner Child Therapy
Imago Relationship Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness-based interventions
Compassion-focused practices
Culturally responsive care
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
Licensure & Credentials
Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California (LCSW #68266)
My clinical training spans relationship therapy, childhood and attachment-focused work, trauma treatment, anxiety, and evidence-based psychotherapy.
Professional Certifications
My advanced clinical training reflects my belief that meaningful change comes from understanding the experiences and patterns beneath what you’re struggling with while using evidence-based approaches to help you move forward.
Relationships & Childhood Patterns
Certified Imago Relationship Therapist (IRT)
Specialized training in helping individuals and couples understand how childhood experiences shape adult relationships, heal recurring patterns, strengthen communication, and build healthier, more secure connections.
Certified in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
Specialized training in understanding how early relationships shape attachment, emotional regulation, and our sense of self—providing a deeper understanding of childhood wounds and the patterns they can carry into adulthood.
Certified in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Evidence-based treatment focused on relationships, communication, grief, and life transitions, helping clients strengthen the connections that support their emotional well-being.
Trauma, Anxiety & Emotional Well-Being
Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT)
Evidence-based treatment that helps clients understand the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while developing healthier patterns, coping skills, and ways of responding to anxiety and other challenges.
Certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Evidence-based treatment focused on understanding and healing the impact of traumatic experiences while strengthening coping skills, emotional regulation, and resilience.
Certified in Seeking Safety
Evidence-based treatment focused on trauma and substance use, helping clients develop safer coping strategies, strengthen emotional stability, and move toward recovery.
Education & Clinical Foundation
My education laid the foundation for more than 15 years of clinical work supporting individuals, couples, and families through mental health challenges, relationships, trauma, and life transitions.
Master of Social Work (MSW)
University of Southern California (USC) 2012
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) 2009
15+ Years of Clinical Experience
For more than 15 years, I’ve worked across community mental health, nonprofit, and private practice settings, supporting individuals, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds through mental health challenges, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, and major life transitions.
Today, through Glow In Therapy, I bring that experience together with specialized training in childhood wounds, relationships, trauma, anxiety, and emotional well-being to provide thoughtful, culturally responsive care tailored to each client’s story.
Outside the Office
Beyond the Therapy Room
When I’m not sitting in the therapist chair, I’m also a mom, a proud Panameña, a woman who loves good conversation, good music, time in nature, and finding little moments to slow down and just be.
Motherhood has become one of the most meaningful parts of my life—and one that continues to teach me about presence, patience, love, and making room for joy in the middle of everyday life.
I’m deeply connected to my culture and spirituality, and you’ll often find me journaling, meditating, spending time outside, listening to music, or creating small rituals that help me reconnect with myself. Sometimes that looks like quiet reflection. Sometimes it looks like putting on some Panamanian music and letting the energy shift.
And like many of the women I work with, I’m still practicing what it means to make room for myself while holding the roles and relationships that matter deeply to me.
I don’t believe self-care has to look perfect—or profound. Sometimes it’s rest. Sometimes it’s laughter. Sometimes it’s getting outside, changing your hair, putting on a song you love, or giving yourself permission to enjoy your own life.
For me, reclaiming your glow isn’t just about doing the deeper work. It’s also about creating a life that feels like yours.
My Hope for You
What I Hope You Experience
I hope therapy becomes a space where you don’t have to be the strong one, the caretaker, the peacekeeper, or the person who always has it all together.
A space where you can slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and make room for the parts of you that may have spent years being pushed aside.
I hope therapy becomes…
The first place where you realize you don't have to earn your worth.
I hope therapy becomes…
The first place where saying "I need help" doesn't feel like failure.
I hope therapy becomes…
The first place where your emotions don't need to be explained away or minimized.
I hope therapy becomes…
The first place where you can simply be human.
I hope you leave our sessions with more than coping skills.
I hope you leave with a deeper understanding of yourself. More compassion for the younger parts of you that have been working so hard. And greater trust in yourself to create relationships—and a life—where you no longer have to abandon yourself to belong.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
When You’re Ready, I’m Here.
- Maybe you’re exhausted from carrying everything alone.
- Maybe you’re wondering why the same patterns keep showing up.
- Maybe you’re ready for something to feel different—even if you’re not exactly sure where to begin.
If that's you, I’m glad you found your way here.
You don’t have to have everything figured out before reaching out. You can begin exactly where you are.
Your complimentary 20-minute consultation is a chance for us to connect, talk about what brings you to therapy, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.
Heal Your Inner Child. Reclaim Your Glow.