Myamaria Shields, LCSW

Myamaria Shields is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of professional experience who supports adults working through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, family conflicts, motivation concerns, self-esteem, and depression. Based in Utah and licensed in Florida and Utah, she brings a strengths-based perspective that honors each person's expertise about their own life while offering guidance and tools to navigate difficult moments.

She focuses on helping clients build confidence, improve communication, and address family-of-origin issues, abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, and workplace pressures. Her practice also includes attention to mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and the emotional work that follows divorce or separation. Myamaria emphasizes practical skill-building alongside emotional exploration so clients can move toward clearer goals and greater well-being.

Myamaria believes that seeking change takes courage and that people already possess resources to help them grow. As an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker trained to assess, diagnose, and treat emotional and behavioral issues - she works to support and empower clients through collaborative, evidence-based techniques tailored to each person’s needs and life circumstances.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Support

Myamaria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful patterns and teaching practical strategies to change them. One approach centers on exploring thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms, helping people reframe negative thinking and practice new responses. Another emphasis is on skills-based work for relationships and family dynamics, including communication skills, boundary setting, and problem-solving to repair connections and reduce conflict. She also integrates trauma-informed methods when addressing mood disorders and post-traumatic stress, offering paced approaches that attend to safety and emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Myamaria collaborates with each client to determine which techniques best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate progress and adjust methods so the work stays practical and meaningful.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life. These formats provide flexibility for ongoing support, allow consistent check-ins between appointments, and make it possible to access licensed professionals from a range of settings, helping treatment fit into busy lives.