Shimana Cassie
Practical, person-focused psychotherapy for daily struggles
About Shimana
Shimana Cassie is a psychotherapist and counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She brings four years of clinical work to conversations about mental health and everyday struggles.
Shimana aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. She focuses on things like stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports people facing trauma, grief, addiction and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on methods that help people make practical changes and build understanding. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive-behavioural techniques to spot patterns and try new ways of responding. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas inform work on relationship and connection issues.
Sessions are shaped around each person. She listens without judgement and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Conversations often include simple exercises, mindfulness practices and ways to practise different skills between meetings.
Shimana has experience in personal, statutory and voluntary settings, which informs a flexible approach to care. She works with a wide range of presenting concerns including ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, career stress, chronic illness, caregiving strain and bereavement. English is used for all sessions.
Prospective clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and session cost varies with location and therapist availability.
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How Shimana works
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Sessions & fees
Approach and accessibility in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioural experiments to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating affect current relationships and helps people build safer ways of connecting.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try things out and adapt methods to match the client's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT or attachment-focused work fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a full conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility needs and allow different ways to practise skills between meetings.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- Coaching
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
