About Maisa
Maisa Shelmire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nearly two decades of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Her approach is steady and practical, aimed at real daily improvements.
She uses conversations and proven therapy techniques to help people understand patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions often include working on thoughts and behaviors, exploring motivations, and looking at early relationship patterns that affect current life.
Background and approach
The aim is clearer thinking and better choices, not quick fixes. Maisa draws on wide clinical experience in psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and behavioral health. That background includes work with trauma, grief, anger, and complicated family dynamics.
Her years in behavioral health shaped a direct style that balances structure with empathy. She also has experience supporting people dealing with parenting stress, career pressures, identity questions, and co-occurring conditions like bipolar or depression. When ADHD shows up, she helps clients develop organization, coping strategies, and ways to manage attention and impulsivity in daily routines.
Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and goals. Maisa aims to set clear steps each week, teach practical skills, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She encourages people to take the first step and offers steady support along the way.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Many clients benefit from a mix of approaches that target thinking, motivation, and long-standing relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that increase stress or worsen mood; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily ADHD challenges. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused style that helps clarify personal reasons for change and strengthens willingness to act. Psychodynamic work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and can help with recurring relationship and intimacy issues.Finding the right mix is treated as a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to set goals, try approaches, and adjust the plan based on progress and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to practical needs and long-term aims.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping care consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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