About Shimyne
Shimyne Homidas is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people navigate major life changes and emotional struggles. She practices with warmth and straightforward support, aiming to meet clients where they are and help them move forward one step at a time. She approaches work in a calm, nonjudgmental way.
Sessions are a place to talk through fear, confusion, grief, and anger. Shimyne helps clients name what they are feeling and figure out practical next steps that feel doable.
How Shimyne works
Her background includes seven years of clinical experience and licenses as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice, LISW-CP. She draws on approaches that emphasize the client’s strengths and motivation to change. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self-esteem struggles.
She also supports people facing divorce, domestic violence, codependency, and issues tied to grief, trauma, and life purpose. Shimyne blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, plus mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools. In sessions she helps people set realistic goals, practice new coping skills, and test small changes between meetings.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to clients in Florida and internationally. Her practice uses flexible online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort.
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What Shimyne works with
The areas below are the ones Shimyne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Shimyne often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters to them. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients identify their own goals and strengths.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people try small behavioral changes and test new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotional regulation and coping. These practical techniques teach breathing, grounding, and interpersonal skills that can help with anger, overwhelming emotions, and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shimyne works with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.
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