Maisa Shelmire, LCSW

Maisa Shelmire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Louisiana with 19 years of professional experience. She lists stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression among the concerns she addresses. She also notes work with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and fatherhood concerns, career and grief, and neurodiversity topics such as autism and ADHD.

Before moving into civilian practice, she served more than two decades in the Louisiana Army National Guard and worked as a Behavioral Health Officer. That background informs how she responds to crisis, manages high-stress situations, and supports people who struggle with first responder or combat-related stress.

In sessions she draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Psychodynamic methods to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and make different choices when stress or anger flares.

Her work includes clinical interviewing, brief evaluations, and psychotherapy for ongoing concerns. She lists experience with psychological and academic testing and with managing crisis and safety planning when needed. Her LCSW credential is noted alongside supervisory experience in clinical settings.

Maisa frames therapy as a practical conversation about daily life. She says she adapts discussion and treatment plans to each person. People reach out to address snapping at loved ones, build better communication, manage resentment, or handle frustration that affects work and family life.

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