About Shemica
Shemica Cole uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. Shemica is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW with 24 years of clinical experience in the District of Columbia. She brings a warm, direct style to sessions and focuses on building useful skills and clearer thinking.
She takes time to listen and to understand each person's situation before shaping a plan.
How Shemica works
Sessions often include techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address patterns of thinking and strong emotions. Attachment-based and mindfulness approaches are used when relationship dynamics or present-moment awareness are central to the concern. Shemica has spent much of her career helping people cope with parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and major life changes.
She also works with issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and communication problems. Practical problem-solving and coaching are woven into longer-term therapeutic work when helpful. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She uses humor when it fits and aims to help people leave sessions with specific tools they can try between meetings. Progress is tracked through regular check-ins and adjustments to the plan as needs shift. People can expect short-term strategies for immediate stress relief and longer-term work on patterns that keep problems returning.
Shemica supports English-speaking clients in Washington, DC, and accepts international clients through online formats when appropriate.
Shemica lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Shemica works with
The areas below are the ones Shemica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | District of Columbia |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections. Online sessions can explore those patterns through conversation and exercises that increase understanding and improve how someone relates to others. Cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Online CBT uses practical exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made and new concerns arise. Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls are useful when visual cues matter and for richer conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes, ask quick questions between sessions, or use writing as a therapeutic tool. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.Start online instead of waiting
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