About Shomaya
Shomaya McFarland is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 13 years of work in mental health. She offers a calm, informal style and aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and self-esteem. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions.
She has experience as a counselor, crisis therapist, supervisor, and case manager, which gives her a broad view of common challenges people face.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on clear listening, direct feedback, and helping clients identify different choices and next steps. That can help when life feels stuck or when emotions are overwhelming. Shomaya typically helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, communication problems, coping with life changes, grief, compassion fatigue, and work-related stress.
She also addresses issues like ADHD, body image, codependency, jealousy, infidelity, and problems tied to attachment patterns. Her methods draw from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In practice that means she listens closely, explores what matters to you, and teaches tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She is transparent about limits of fit: she does not focus on deep childhood trauma work at this time. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online in formats that fit modern life. If you want straightforward, nonjudgmental support for stress, anxiety, relationships, or day-to-day struggles, she may be a good match.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy means she starts by listening and following the concerns you bring. It focuses on understanding your perspective and supporting the choices you want to make, which can be useful for relationship struggles, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing different ways of thinking and acting. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood concerns by teaching clear, step-by-step skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) borrows practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It adds structured tools for coping with strong feelings, handling conflict, and reducing impulsive reactions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single method. That makes therapy a shared process about what helps most in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you talk face to face; phone calls work with lower bandwidth or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, messaging between sessions, or if typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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