About Shama
Shama Joshi is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people in Illinois navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, ADHD, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to create a calm space where clients can tell their story and find practical ways forward. She listens for each person’s history and everyday pressures.
Sessions focus on building self-understanding, clearer communication, and skills to cope with hard moments. Shama draws from somatic-informed work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, alongside talk-based approaches.
Background and approach
Her practice blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-informed work, client-centered care, and cognitive-behavioral techniques. That mix is used to surface patterns, test new behaviors, and practice different ways of managing emotions. The goal is to make small, usable changes that fit daily life.
Shama pays attention to cultural and identity factors that shape how people experience stress. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver stress, and concerns like body image, codependency, or communication problems. Her nine years of clinical experience inform a steady, flexible style.
Sessions can include talking, skill-building, and noticing bodily responses to stress. People who prefer remote options can connect by video, phone, chat, or text. Practical steps and supportive reflection are emphasized so clients leave with things they can try between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to where stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle grounding and body awareness so people notice tension and try small movement or breathing tools that reduce reactivity.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action. In remote sessions this often means learning a few practical skills to stay present and commit to steps that matter in daily life.
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current trust and closeness. Through conversation and reflective exercises, people can practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each client to identify what fits their goals, preferences, and daily routine. That shared planning helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility needs and keep momentum when in-person visits are not possible. Licensed professionals can use these options to teach skills, review progress, and adapt plans over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English