Shiho Murakami, LICSW, LCSW-C

Shiho Murakami offers calm, steady support for people coping with trauma, parenting strain, LGBT concerns, and low self-esteem. She speaks both English and Japanese and works from a place of respect and sensitivity. Shiho aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear. Shiho uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She tailors sessions and goals to individual needs instead of following a single script. Expect practical tools alongside time to process difficult events and emotions. Her approach draws on methods that help with patterns of thinking, emotions, and close relationships. She helps people notice values, build skills for handling stress, and repair attachment problems. This can be useful for issues like abandonment, family of origin struggles, blended family concerns, and recovery from domestic violence or other abuse. With six years of clinical experience, Shiho holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential in the District of Columbia and a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical in Maryland. She frames treatment as a partnership and adjusts pacing to each person’s comfort. Many clients seek support for parenting challenges, communication difficulties, or co-occurring issues such as substance use and eating concerns. Shiho also works with adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, and body image worries. If you want a respectful, collaborative therapist who balances skills and listening, she may be a good fit.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite painful thoughts or memories. It often suits people wanting to reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful daily routine. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and on repairing trust and connection; it can help with abandonment, family of origin issues, and parenting concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives practical strategies for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.

Finding the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. If one approach does not feel right, adjustments are made so treatment stays useful and relevant to your needs.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins can work around work breaks or audio-only conversations can reduce the need for video. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.