Shamia Turlington

Greetings!!

Meet Shamia Turlington a therapist with six years of experience providing individual children and adult therapy, couple’s therapy, and family therapy. She has a passion for educating and empowering people with a skill set to help improve their life wholistically by utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Solution Focused Approach, and Reality Therapy. She finds pleasure in working with family systems, couples, and adolescents and teenagers to help bring awareness to barriers such as trauma, suppression of thoughts and feelings, and experiences of emotional or physical rejection and abandonment. Shamia believes that life experiences in children molds the development in children as they transition into adults. Therapist is intentional with educating adults on discovering the inner child that needs to be healed to be a whole individual and effective spouse, parent, or employee.

Therapist received her Bachelor of Social Work degree from Clark Atlanta University and her Master of Social Work New York University. She has a clinical background of being a Family Based Therapist for five years utilizing the family system model. In addition to her family-based therapy experience, she has two years of clinical experience with working in a psychiatric facility providing psychoeducation to patients on the detox units, adolescent unit, and psychosis unit through group therapy and individual therapy.

Shamia lives a life based on giving back to those in need through her annual sponsoring of two families of single parents for school shopping as well as sponsoring two families for Christmas. She has an annual birthday feeding homeless event and she participates in other community service projects through her sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. Shamia believes that if everyone would provide mental and emotional health support and show empathy, that the world would be a better place.

Since becoming a therapist, Shamia has been strategic and intentional with breaking down the barriers one-by-one surrounding mental health within society while trying to spread love, affirmations, and encouragement with those she encounters.