- CBT and trauma approaches
- Focus on relationships
- Helps with disaster coping
About Siyama
Siyama Drake is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of experience. She draws on practical, evidence-informed methods to help people move past stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Siyama presents a direct and supportive style that matches each person's needs. She aims to help clients make steady, manageable changes and get unstuck.
Over her career Siyama has worked in residential and community settings with people who have complex trauma histories. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused approaches to address symptoms and patterns that keep someone feeling stuck. Sessions include clear strategies to shift thinking and behavior, and hands-on tools for coping after distressing events.
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques also show up in her work. Those methods help people build calm, focus on what matters now, and find practical steps forward. Siyama balances encouragement with direct feedback when barriers need to be confronted.
She has experience handling issues like relationship conflict, family problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, and body image struggles. She also supports people dealing with coping after natural or human-caused disaster.
Siyama works in Georgia and offers services in English. International clients are accepted. To begin, prospective clients follow the platform process to match and schedule sessions according to availability.
How CBT and Trauma-Focused Care Translate to Online Work
CBT focuses on noticing patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then trying practical steps to change them. Online CBT sessions usually involve setting goals, practicing new skills between visits, and tracking small successes to reduce anxiety and depression.Trauma-Focused approaches concentrate on safely addressing traumatic memories and the reactions that follow. In an online setting this often means pacing difficult material, learning coping tools first, and using structured exercises to reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Siyama will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means reviewing options, trying techniques, and adjusting based on how well they help.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into daily life by removing travel and allowing sessions during work breaks or from quieter locations. Some formats may be shorter or require less bandwidth, which helps people keep therapy consistent when schedules are tight.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
26+ years
Credentials
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Siyama commonly address?
Siyama helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family problems. Additional focuses include abandonment, attachment, post-traumatic stress, and coping after disasters.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is practical and client-centered. She can be supportive and also direct when confronting barriers that keep someone from changing.
How much experience does she have?
She has 26 years of clinical experience working in residential and community settings with people who have trauma histories.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Georgia.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions will be conducted.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.