Shimana Cassie, BACP

Shimana Cassie is a clinical psychotherapist and counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and draws on four years of professional practice. Her work focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression and relationship concerns, including jealousy and intimacy-related issues.

Shimana tailors each session to the person in front of her. She blends practical strategies from cognitive behavioural approaches with person-centred listening. She also uses attachment-informed ideas and emotionally focused work to help people understand patterns in close relationships.

In sessions she aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about painful experiences. She supports conversations about trauma, grief, addiction and self-esteem in clear, straightforward terms. She also helps people manage life changes, career stress and the emotional demands of caring roles.

Her methods include mindful awareness exercises and acceptance-based tools to reduce unhelpful struggling. She works collaboratively to set goals and build skills people can use between meetings. Progress is paced to what each person can manage at the time.

Shimana emphasises practical problem-solving alongside emotional understanding. She explains ideas plainly and checks in about what is useful. Her aim is to help people feel steadier, more connected and better able to manage the issues that brought them to therapy.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and struggles such as jealousy by teaching practical ways to respond rather than react. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people name and change unhelpful ways of connecting. It is useful for intimacy issues and for understanding recurring relationship problems. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding from the person's perspective, helping people feel heard and supported while they work through difficult feelings.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process where the person and therapist try different ways of working and adjust what isn’t helping.

Session formats are not listed here, so please confirm which options are available before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and busy days because they remove travel time and allow more flexible scheduling. They also let people choose quieter times, shorter check-ins or camera-off conversations if that better suits their needs. Registered or accredited professionals can use online work to deliver the same therapeutic tools used in face-to-face meetings, adapted to each person's circumstances.