About Shakiyah
Shakiyah Demelien is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and depression. Her tone is respectful and compassionate, and she works to make the first steps feel less overwhelming.
She keeps sessions focused and practical. Conversations and goals are tailored to each person. She listens for patterns such as attachment concerns, abandonment worries, or trouble with communication and control.
Background and approach
From there she helps people try new ways of coping that fit daily life. Shakiyah brings four years of experience in counseling work. She has worked with issues like guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, caregiver stress, and problems tied to money or life transitions.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current feelings and choices. Her approach is collaborative. Clients and she set goals together and check progress over time.
She offers straightforward strategies for impulsivity, mood challenges, and navigating divorce or separation while also addressing forgiveness and life purpose concerns. Sessions aim to build clearer communication, steadier moods, and more manageable stress. People leave with steps they can use between meetings.
Shakiyah frames therapy as a team effort toward practical change and greater emotional balance.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Shakiyah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and clearer communication. One common technique teaches concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, like breathing tools, short behavioral experiments, and step-by-step plans to reduce worry. These methods help people manage strong feelings in day-to-day life.Another approach centers on identifying relationship and attachment patterns. This work looks at how early experiences shape current reactions, then practices different ways of communicating and setting boundaries. It can be useful for people dealing with abandonment concerns, communication problems, or family conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort with online formats. Together they review progress and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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