Shemica Cole, LICSW

Shemica Cole is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Washington, DC. She brings 24 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. She often supports people dealing with trauma, depression, addictions, ADHD, and career or parenting strain.

Her style is warm and conversational. She uses an individualized plan made with the person in the room. Sessions may include tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, attachment-based ideas, dialectical skills, and mindfulness practices. Humor and hope are part of her way of working.

Shemica aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable. She helps people notice patterns, try new behavior, and build skills that fit daily life. She also addresses complex histories such as abuse, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, or caregiver stress.

She has helped people with communication problems, codependency, control issues, and coping with big life changes. She also supports those facing blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and issues linked to aging or serious illness.

When someone is unsure how to start, she works together to set clear, realistic goals. Her goal is to leave people with tools they can use after a session ends. She looks for small steps that lead to meaningful change.

How her approaches guide online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns shape current relationships. It helps people notice how they get close or pull away and supports building more steady ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support better emotion regulation.

Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process. Shemica will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and daily life. That collaborative decision helps tailor homework, skill practice, and the focus of sessions so progress feels practical and realistic.

Confirm current session options before booking, since the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-in meetings when needed. It can also let people practice new skills in the settings where problems happen and bring real-life examples to sessions for immediate discussion.