About Shamika
Shamika Scott-Carson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who draws on more than two decades of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She uses a practical, client-centered style that focuses on each person's needs and goals. Her approach is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people make changes that fit their daily lives.
Shamika combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and use simple mindfulness skills to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills that can be practiced between meetings so progress continues outside the session. She has long experience addressing substance use and related concerns such as codependency and communication problems. Shamika also works with anger, trauma and post-traumatic stress, parenting stress, and issues common to young adults.
Her background includes many years supporting people facing life transitions and career stress. Shamika offers a direct, respectful approach that balances practical problem solving with emotional support. She uses motivational interviewing when people are ambivalent about change, and solution-focused work to set short-term goals.
Clients can expect clear, concrete steps and regular check-ins on progress. Based in South Carolina, Shamika brings 22 years of practice to each session. She speaks English and offers a range of online session formats to fit busy schedules.
Her style suits people who want a collaborative, down-to-earth process with an emphasis on skills and real-world results.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist asks about priorities, adapts pacing, and helps set goals the client wants to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches people how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and gives simple exercises to change patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills to handle intense feelings and conflicts.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current problems, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, track what works, and shift course as needed so the approach fits the person rather than the person fitting a method.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for full conversations and teaching skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or work around low bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reminders of strategies, and ongoing support between longer meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English