About Lakesha
Lakesha Lingard is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with ten years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive approach and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She uses practical, evidence-informed methods that are easy to follow.
Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person's goals. Lakesha values sensitivity and respect, and she avoids stigmatizing labels when talking about problems.
How Lakesha works
Her work often addresses emotional regulation, communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and difficulties with self-esteem or body image. She also supports people coping with grief, career transitions, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Common tools include cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based techniques to reduce avoidance, and emotionally focused interventions to deepen connection and healing.
Lakesha blends these methods into a plan that fits the individual's needs and life circumstances. She offers sessions through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy begins with a short questionnaire to match goals and scheduling, then moves into regular sessions paced to the client's availability.
Lakesha aims to help people make steady, realistic progress toward the life they want.
Lakesha lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Lakesha works with
The areas below are the ones Lakesha 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Lakesha Uses Online Therapy and Her Methods
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that contribute to depression, anxiety, or anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and shift emotional responses to improve connections with others and to heal from attachment wounds.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match the method to the person's needs and preferences rather than imposing a single model.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity of care when in-person visits are not practical.
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