About Shem
Shem Lopez helps people who are feeling stuck, anxious, overwhelmed by stress, or unsure about relationships. He meets each person as an individual and focuses on what matters to them. Sessions are straightforward and aim to build practical awareness and new ways of responding to difficult feelings.
Shem uses a mix of approaches to help people notice unhelpful patterns. He supports clients to identify personal values and take actions that line up with those values.
How Shem works
He also helps people make sense of past hurt that still affects how they react now. People who come for work on anxiety, panic attacks, depression, trauma and abuse, or anger find practical tools for day-to-day life. He also supports those dealing with intimacy, sexuality, eating concerns, workplace stress and issues around self-esteem.
Coaching-style work is available for life changes and purpose-related questions. Shem has worked in independent practice since 2012 and brings 12 years of experience to sessions. His credential NCPS is shown as part of his professional details.
He offers online and in-person appointments for people in the United Kingdom and for international clients. In sessions people are invited to speak honestly and be met without judgement. The focus is on increasing self-awareness, choosing responses rather than reacting, and building stronger connections with oneself and others.
Therapy with Shem is collaborative; he helps clients test new ways of relating and build lasting skills for coping and growth.
Shem lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Shem works with
The areas below are the ones Shem selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, depression and life changes where someone wants clearer direction and steadier behaviour. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centres on understanding emotional responses in relationships and creating stronger bonds through clearer emotional expression. It is helpful for people who want to improve closeness and handle conflict with more attuned responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try a way of working that fits the person's needs, goals and preferences. That choice is made together and can be adapted as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit practical needs. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face connection, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family life and travel while keeping focus on the therapeutic goals.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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