Every challenge holds the potential for profound growth.
Through evidence-based methods and mindful presence, I guide individuals and couples toward lasting transformation, honoring both the complexity of your journey and your innate capacity for healing.
Hi, I'm Shimekia Williams.
My work is rooted in evidence-based approaches like the Gottman Method (Level 2 trained), and is guided by a deep respect for the lived experiences, cultural identities, and unique rhythms of every person and couple I work with.
As a Black Jamaican woman and healing practitioner, I bring not only clinical training but also lived insight into our sessions together. I believe in the power of curiosity, laughter, and presence. My clients often describe me as both deeply intuitive and refreshingly honest, someone who creates space for vulnerability while gently nudging them toward change.
I work primarily with LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC couples across the spectrum of partnership- from pre-engaged or newly committed to those in long-term relationship- who are seeking a space where they can be fully seen, heard, and held without having to explain or shrink who they are.
Outside of therapy, I value openness, connection, and slowing down enough to listen. I enjoy sitting by the water, being in nature, and allowing these spaces to be my teachers. I love visiting family, spending time with friends, reading, and being a lifelong learner. I stay rooted in practices that nourish the spirit and continually explore how embodiment, ancestral connection, storytelling, and community support our journey.
I believe our relationships can be powerful portals for healing. I'd be honored to walk alongside you.
My Offerings
Guiding you through life's transitions with wisdom and evidence-based care.
Whether you're navigating intimacy, family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, or simply want to feel more connected, I offer therapy that honors your whole self.
Individual Therapy
60 mins | $130
Life's transitions, whether chosen or unexpected, are natural cycles that become profound opportunities for growth when met with compassionate guidance.When navigating depression, anxiety, life changes, self-esteem challenges, or healing from complex trauma, you deserve therapeutic partnership that honors both your journey and your innate wisdom.
Together, we'll explore your path forward using mindfulness, somatic practices, meditation, DBT, and CBT, blending ancient wisdom with evidence-based approaches to help you step confidently into your next season of life.
Couples Therapy
60 mins | $150
Every relationship faces cycles of harmony and challenge, these tensions are natural opportunities to build stronger bonds when approached with skilled guidance and proven methods.When navigating marriage struggles, preparing for commitment, or strengthening your partnership, you deserve expert support that honors both your individual journeys and your shared vision.
Together, we'll bridge your differences using the Gottman Method and relationship coaching principles, integrating evidence-based approaches with mindful communication to help you create lasting intimacy and step confidently into your next chapter as a couple. Together, we'll honor your ancestors, celebrate your love, and build relationships rooted in divine purpose, authentic connection, and generational healing. Your love story is sacred.
Life Coaching
Price | $130 for Individuals, $150 for couples
Our biggest dreams and deepest relationships don't have to compete when you learn to build a life that honors all of who you are. Life coaching offers expansion-focused partnership for navigating career transitions, strengthening relationships while pursuing individual goals, or breaking through patterns that keep you playing small.
Together, we'll design a roadmap forward using mindfulness, somatic awareness, and strategic planning to identify what you truly want, remove obstacles holding you back, and create sustainable momentum that feels aligned with who you're becoming. This isn't about forcing yourself into someone else's definition of success—it's about building a life so authentically yours that every step forward energizes rather than depletes you.
Group Therapy
Prices TBD
Shared struggles become shared strength when experienced in supportive community, these group connections offer unique healing that individual therapy cannot provide alone. When facing life transitions, trauma recovery, relationship challenges, or personal growth goals, you deserve the power of collective wisdom and mutual support from others walking similar paths.
Together, we'll create safe spaces for authentic sharing and growth using structured group processes and mindfulness-based approaches, building lasting connections and practical skills to help you thrive both within the group and in your daily life.
Testimonials
Community Access
Upholding economic equity is an important value in this practice. I offer pathways to care that consider both financial circumstances and couple’s readiness for the work.
Through sliding scale sessions and alternative models, support remains available without compromising depth or dignity. This is offered to couples and individuals who are navigating financial hardship and belong to communities historically excluded from care, including BIPOC, queer, disabled, and other marginalized identities. Through sliding scale options, barter arrangements, package pricing, insurance processing, and dedicated community care sessions, support meets you where you are, without compromising the depth or integrity of the therapeutic work.
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I offer tiered session rates based on income, access, and lived experience.
Choose the rate that reflects your circumstances.
Tier 1: $130
Tier 2: $115
Tier 3: $100
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If you’re ready to commit to the work, I offer:
6 sessions for $500 (save $550)
4 sessions for $300 (save $400)
Paying in advance helps build consistency and removes week-to-week money stress.
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Healing work is part of a larger ecosystem one where mutual support matters. I’m open to bartering with fellow healers, artists, birth workers, educators, and creatives who have an offering of their own. If therapy feels like the right support but finances are a barrier, let’s explore an exchange that honors us both.
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Aetna
Carefirst/BCBS
Quest Behavioral Health
United Healthcare
Superbill: a detailed receipt that lets an individual ask their insurance company for reimbursement
HSA/FSA