About Shemica
Shemica Cole is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) based in the District of Columbia. She brings 24 years of practice to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and ADHD. She uses a warm, conversational style and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical.
She listens first to learn what matters most to each person. Then she co-creates a plan with clear steps and tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Humor and hope are often part of her way of working alongside clients. Her background includes long experience supporting people after trauma and abuse, and helping with parenting, career strain, grief, and addictions. She also helps with intimacy issues, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles.
Many people come to her for help coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. Shemica draws on several evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to what the person needs in the moment. Sessions focus on practical skills, improved communication, emotion regulation, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.
She aims to leave clients with tools they can use between appointments. People who choose her often want steady, respectful guidance and a plan that fits real life. She values diversity and tries to create an environment where people feel seen and understood.
When someone is ready to make a change, she supports taking that first step.
Approaches that guide online work and practical change
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try different ways of connecting that reduce pain and confusion.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s own goals and perspective. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client find their own solutions, which works well for stress, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Shemica will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work when seeing nonverbal cues matters. Phone sessions can fit a short break during a workday or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to schedules and day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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