About Shamia
Shamia Humbles is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Louisiana with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, eating issues, and self-esteem struggles. She presents a steady, respectful presence and aims to create a space where people feel heard.
Her work is practical and collaborative. She listens first, then tailors conversations and a plan to the needs a person brings.
How Shamia works
Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that can change everyday thinking and behavior. She takes time to understand how life events, body image, and money worries affect mood and choices. Shamia also supports people coping with caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and forgiveness work.
She addresses life purpose questions and helps people build self-love. Post-traumatic stress and mood disorders are included in her experience, approached with sensitivity and attention to each person's pace. Her style is frank but compassionate.
She helps people sort priorities, practice new skills, and try different ways of handling conflict or painful feelings. Treatment plans are adjusted over time as goals shift. Shamia works with women’s issues and the particular pressures that can come with them.
She emphasizes respect and sensitivity in every session. Taking a first step is hard, and she aims to make that step feel understood and supported.
What Shamia works with
The areas below are the ones Shamia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques used in her work focus on clear skills and practical strategies. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments; this helps reduce anxiety and shift negative self-talk. Another method centers on behavioral changes - creating small routines and actions that build steadier mood and improved eating patterns. Both approaches aim for concrete actions people can practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will review each person's goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Then she and the client choose techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the plan flexible and collaborative.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for seeing a licensed professional. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection while avoiding travel. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support easier to fit into busy days. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to keep consistent.
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