About YaShica
YaShica Maxwell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, evidence-based care for adults facing big life changes. She uses a warm, collaborative style to help people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally drained. Sessions aim to make space for honest conversation and clearer next steps.
She helps people manage anxiety, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress with straightforward skills that can be used between sessions. YaShica also supports those navigating divorce, separation, and relationship problems, including communication and codependency concerns.
Background and approach
Guilt, shame, and struggles with self-love are common topics she addresses. She offers guidance around life purpose, money and financial stress, and challenges that arise from multicultural identities. Veteran and armed forces issues are also within her focus areas.
Her approach is culturally responsive and practical. Together with each client she identifies unhelpful patterns, practices new ways of communicating, and builds coping strategies that fit daily life. Progress is paced to feel manageable and meaningful.
YaShica holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential. She has seven years of clinical experience and works with adults who want clearer direction, more energy, and healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Outside of work she enjoys travel, family time, concerts, museums, and being near the beach, which all inform her belief that healing includes making room for joy and restoration.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
YaShica integrates evidence-based therapeutic techniques in online work. One common approach she uses emphasizes skills building for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and practical coping steps that clients can use between sessions to reduce acute symptoms. Another strand of her practice focuses on processing trauma and stress reactions with paced, supportive work that helps people feel more stable and capable over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to match approaches to a person’s needs, values, and daily life demands rather than applying a single method from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel while keeping progress steady and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Minnesota, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English