About Myamaria
Myamaria Shields is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship or family tensions, low self-esteem, and depression. Her straightforward style aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for busy parents and adults.
She treats common concerns like mood struggles, social anxiety, and workplace stress. She also supports people dealing with abandonment wounds, caregiver strain, and family of origin issues.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps you can try between meetings to ease daily pressure. Myamaria values the client as the expert in their life story. She listens for strengths and practical goals, then suggests ways to build on what is already working.
Expect a respectful, supportive approach that balances listening with problem-solving. Her work often addresses communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation challenges, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose. She offers guidance for navigating post-traumatic stress and mood disorders in plain language with concrete strategies.
Myamaria is licensed as a clinical social worker - LCSW - and practices from Utah. She aims to make therapy approachable, with simple tools and steady encouragement to help people move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Myamaria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Another approach emphasizes building stronger communication and coping skills to handle relationship tensions, caregiver strain, and workplace stress.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to a person's goals and preferences, then suggests approaches and adjusts them over time. Clients and therapist work together to pick strategies that feel useful and realistic for each person's life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video helps when seeing facial cues matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins and flexible timing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when in-person visits are hard to arrange.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English