About Alijah
Alijah Sheer is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 15 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and depression. She creates a calm space where people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. Her style is straightforward and supportive for someone taking early steps toward change.
Alijah emphasizes practical conversation and steady support. She listens first, then works with each person to set realistic goals.
How Alijah works
That might mean learning ways to cope with upsetting thoughts, improving communication, or finding routines that ease sleep and daily stress. Her work draws from several approaches. Client-centered methods keep the focus on the person's needs and perspective.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and uses simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Existential ideas help people face big life questions and find meaning after loss or change. Alijah also uses hypnotherapy and Jungian ideas when they fit the person’s goals.
These tools can be useful for exploring deep feelings, patterns from the past, and moments of dissociation or emptiness. She practices in Maine as an ME LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Sessions follow a steady, collaborative pace so people feel understood while working toward clearer choices.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules based on the listed options.
Alijah lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Alijah works with
The areas below are the ones Alijah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, helps clarify feelings, and supports choices that feel right to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, actions, and mood and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. Existential therapy addresses big questions about meaning, loss, and change and can help people find direction during uncertain times.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Over a few sessions the plan can be adjusted so the work matches the person's needs and pace.
The biography does not specify which session formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people maintain continuity of care while managing work, caregiving, or other daily demands. Licensed professionals adapt methods like CBT and client-centered listening to work well at a distance, focusing on clear steps, homework between sessions, and practical tools to use between meetings.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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