About Shimana
Shimana Cassie is a psychotherapist and counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and brings four years of clinical experience to her practice. Her work focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety and stress as well as related concerns such as depression and low mood.
She supports people who are facing relationship and intimacy difficulties, grief and loss, or trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include self-esteem, addictions, sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, and career-related pressure. Shimana also works with issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue and body image concerns. Her approach draws on well-established methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas and Emotionally-Focused and client-centred ways of working.
She tailors sessions to each person, choosing practical steps and conversation that suit the individual situation. In sessions Shimana aims to offer a straightforward, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what matters to them. She focuses on what the person wants to change and on small, manageable steps to get there.
The tone is warm and direct, with attention to both feelings and practical problem solving. Shimana has experience across personal, statutory and voluntary settings. She works in English and provides online options such as video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit around daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Shimana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them and then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on Attachment-Based and client-centred ideas to understand how past relationships affect present reactions and to keep the person’s experience central to the work. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and she will discuss options with each person to agree what feels most useful based on their goals and preferences. That shared decision-making helps set clear aims and keeps therapy focused on what the client wants to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make access easier. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls suit people with limited bandwidth, and text or chat can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still using tried approaches to address anxiety, stress and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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