About Siyama
Siyama Drake is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of clinical experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, and effects of trauma and abuse. Siyama aims to create a straightforward path forward so clients feel like they are making steady progress.
Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods with mindfulness and solution-focused work. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, trying specific coping skills, and setting small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Siyama balances support with gentle challenges to help people move past what keeps them stuck. She has long experience working in residential and community settings, which shaped a flexible counseling style. That background gives her familiarity with attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and blended family concerns.
Siyama also addresses sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and recovery from other kinds of trauma. In practical terms she helps with communication problems, impulsivity, body image, and social anxiety. Siyama also works with issues tied to family dynamics, women's concerns, and young adult transitions.
Her counseling focuses on concrete tools people can use between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and she sees clients in Georgia as well as international clients. Siyama encourages people to take the first step by completing a short questionnaire and arranging sessions that fit their schedules.
How approaches like CBT and trauma work online
CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises such as tracking thoughts, testing beliefs, and building coping skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behaviors. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices and breathing techniques to lower stress and improve emotional awareness, which can help with anxiety and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Siyama will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helpful, so sessions stay focused and relevant to current needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people practice skills in real time, while phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins, tracking progress, or for people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor 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