About Siyama
Siyama Drake is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship strain, trauma and depression. Her style is practical and goal-oriented while remaining supportive and thoughtful.
Siyama uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused approaches to help people notice unhelpful patterns. She blends mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to create short-term goals and steady progress. Sessions often include simple tools people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She adapts how she works to each person's needs. Sometimes that means gently challenging unhelpful thoughts. Other times it means slowing down and practicing grounding or breathing skills.
The aim is to reduce distress and improve everyday functioning. Her experience includes working with people affected by abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and blended family dynamics. She also addresses body image, communication struggles, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and related concerns.
Siyama brings years of practice with trauma and family-related difficulties. People who reach out will find a straightforward approach focused on clear steps and real-life coping strategies. She helps clients set practical goals and track change over time.
The process centers on what each person wants to achieve and the skills needed to get there.
Using evidence-based approaches in online therapy
Siyama draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT uses practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, and relationship strain.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address symptoms that follow traumatic experiences. This approach focuses on processing troubling memories and building skills to manage triggers and flashbacks so everyday life feels more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Siyama will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. She works collaboratively to choose techniques that fit a person's needs and preferences rather than relying on a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging fit short check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on goals from different places.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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