About Shamia
Shamia Humbles is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Louisiana with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, eating concerns, and self-esteem challenges.
Background and approach
Shamia aims to meet clients where they are and treat everyone with respect and compassion. She takes a practical, person-centered approach and adjusts conversations to fit each person's needs.
Sessions are tailored so people can work on concrete goals like coping with anxiety, restoring self-worth, or processing loss. She also addresses related areas such as body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and money or life-purpose concerns.
Shamia supports people navigating divorce and separation, forgiveness work, mood challenges, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. She often helps women who want to strengthen self-love and clarity about next steps.
The focus is on clear, manageable steps rather than long lists of technical terms. Her style is calm and collaborative.
Shamia listens closely, asks practical questions, and helps people try new strategies between sessions. She emphasizes realistic changes that fit daily life and personal values.
For someone feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck after a loss or a big life change, Shamia offers steady, respectful guidance. The work begins with a simple conversation to understand what matters most and build a plan from there.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Shamia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses centers on helping people manage anxiety and stress through structured conversations and coping exercises that can reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another focus involves grief and loss work that helps people name feelings, process painful memories, and find steps toward rebuilding routines and meaning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shamia works with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls provide a near face-to-face setting for deeper conversations and body language cues. Phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to share thoughts between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English