- Trauma-responsive care
- Practical coping skills
- Adoption and foster care
About Siyama
Siyama Drake is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of clinical experience. She blends practical techniques with a straightforward style to help people move past problems that feel stuck. Siyama is comfortable offering support and also challenging clients when that will help create change.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused approaches to address stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps such as changing unhelpful thoughts, practicing coping skills, and working through traumatic memories at a pace that feels right for each person.
Siyama also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused methods to strengthen everyday coping. Mindfulness practices are used to calm the body and attention. Solution-focused work highlights small, practical changes that add up over time.
Her background includes many years working with children, couples, and families in residential and community settings. That experience informs how she approaches adoption and foster care concerns and attachment issues, helping parents and caregivers with communication, blended family challenges, and relationship patterns.
Sessions are aimed at helping people handle relationship strain, abandonment worries, body image concerns, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Siyama works with women and young adults on issues such as impulsivity, personality difficulties, and recovery after sexual assault.
She accepts clients in Georgia and works with international clients as well. People interested in starting are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling the first session.
Online therapy approaches that focus on trauma and change
Siyama commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and relationship problems.She also uses Trauma-Focused methods that help people process traumatic events safely and reduce their ongoing impact. These approaches move at the client’s pace and aim to reduce intense reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Siyama will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, history, and comfort level. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT skills, trauma processing, mindfulness, or brief solution-focused goals.
The therapist's biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people meet with a licensed professional from different locations, which is helpful for international clients.
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 works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also focuses on adoption and foster care related issues and attachment difficulties.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style mixes support with challenge based on what each person needs. She uses clear, step-by-step techniques to change thinking and behavior and to practice new skills.
What is her professional background?
She has 26 years of experience and has worked with children, couples, and families in residential and community settings. That background shapes how she approaches complex trauma and relationship difficulties.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Georgia. Her practice is based in Georgia.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking so you know whether video, phone, or in-person meetings are offered.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling based on the therapist's availability.