About Shammeer
Shammeer Dawson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She brings seven years of direct clinical experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the effects of trauma and loss. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier.
Her approach emphasizes warm, accepting conversations where clients can talk through painful feelings. She uses client-centered techniques that follow each person's pace. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and long-standing emotional responses.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are offered when helpful, such as noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm, moment-by-moment awareness for overwhelming feelings. She has worked with people facing grief, chronic illness, parenting stress, career challenges, and issues related to identity, including LGBT concerns.
Additional focuses include ADHD, self-esteem, anger, and caregiver strain. Sessions aim to clarify goals and try manageable changes between meetings. Shammeer encourages straightforward planning for next steps.
She helps people set small, realistic goals and reviews progress together. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online conversations can uncover patterns that affect how someone trusts, connects, or withdraws in relationships and then guide steps to shift those patterns.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and preferences. The therapist follows the client’s pace, reflects feelings, and helps name what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to make sense of strong emotions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises. In remote sessions, CBT can include thought records, behavioral experiments between meetings, and guided skill practice during video or phone work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to clarify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps most. Together they review progress and pick the best tools for each person.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit a brief therapeutic check-in into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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