About Keisha
Keisha Hawthorne-Jones is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland who brings 19 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and life changes. Keisha emphasizes clients' strengths and works alongside them as they take steps toward change.
Her approach centers on listening and collaboration. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities, and employs practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
How Keisha works
Mindfulness tools are also offered to help with strong emotions and grounding. Keisha supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, blended family concerns, and communication problems. She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, and coping after disasters.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care topics, attachment issues, body image, and family of origin difficulties. Clients who face mood conditions such as depression or bipolar concerns can expect concrete strategies and coaching toward clearer routines and goals. She can also address ADHD-related struggles, codependency, abandonment worries, and commitment or control issues.
Sessions aim to be practical and respectful. Keisha speaks English and practices in Maryland as a LICSW, MD, LCSW-C. She invites people to consider small, steady steps rather than sudden change, and partners with them to build solutions that fit daily life.
Keisha lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Keisha works with
The areas below are the ones Keisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead and building on their own goals and strengths. In online sessions this can mean starting each meeting by asking what matters most and shaping the session to those priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Online CBT often uses brief homework, thought records, and skill practice between sessions to support anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage strong feelings and increase calm. These exercises work well in short video or phone sessions and can be practiced during the day when emotions arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that fits each person's life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people read facial expression and body language, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works for short updates or reminders. These options help make therapy fit around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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