Shama Joshi, LCSW

Shama Joshi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, ADHD, and life changes. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions.

She starts by listening to each person's story and day-to-day struggles. That helps her tailor straightforward goals and tools for coping. Sessions often include practicing communication skills, building routines, and learning ways to reduce anxious or overwhelming thoughts.

Shama uses a few evidence-based approaches to guide her work. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thought patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-informed methods to look at how relationships shape feelings. She also uses client-centered principles to keep the client’s priorities central.

Her background includes nine years of clinical work with adults facing major transitions. She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and neurodiversity including autism. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, and communication or commitment challenges.

Shama aims to make therapy practical and understandable. She helps clients build skills for daily life, manage mood and anxiety, and improve how they relate to others. People in Illinois who want to explore goals and tools for change can begin by completing the site’s matching steps to schedule a session.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Shama uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in ways that fit well with online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors, which often becomes homework and short exercises between visits. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and building small, concrete actions that align with those values, useful for short goal-setting in remote sessions.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, give more flexibility around work or caregiving schedules, and allow check-ins without travel time. It can also accommodate shorter progress-focused visits or longer deep-dive conversations depending on what a person needs and what is available.