About Shama
Shama Joshi is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She works with adults who are adjusting to life changes and those managing attention-related challenges. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer ways to handle everyday problems.
She uses straightforward, collaborative methods to build emotional skills and problem-solving tools. Conversations aim to identify patterns that cause distress and replace them with manageable habits.
Background and approach
Clients leave with concrete strategies they can try between sessions. Joshi brings nine years of clinical experience in Illinois to her work. She pays attention to cultural background and how identity shapes daily stress.
That awareness helps tailor approaches to each person’s circumstances. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems. She also supports people facing divorce, blended family questions, and aging or geriatric concerns.
Therapeutic tools come from several well-known approaches, used flexibly to match what the client needs. The tone in sessions is warm and direct, focused on building skills, increasing self-understanding, and improving relationships. Progress usually looks like clearer choices and less time spent stuck in worry.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. In practice this means identifying what matters, trying small behavior changes, and using brief exercises to reduce avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors that lower anxiety and improve mood. These methods are useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and attention-related struggles.The therapist treats approach selection as a team effort. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan based on what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and do interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, progress check-ins, and ongoing practice between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English