About Lakesha
Lakesha Stidum is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of direct practice. She combines practical strategies with focused conversation to help people move toward their goals. Her work often centers on depression and anxiety, and she draws on methods that help people change thoughts and behaviors in everyday life.
Lakesha earned a bachelor’s degree from Arkansas State University and a master’s degree from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.
How Lakesha works
She holds an LCSW credential and is licensed to practice in Texas and California. Her background includes several years working in individual therapy settings beginning in 2014. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors.
She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify what they really want and find the motivation to change. These tools are applied in plain language and with practical steps to try between meetings. Her approach is client-centered, meaning she aims to follow each person’s pace and priorities.
Lakesha also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas for emotion regulation, Narrative Therapy for making sense of life stories, and solution-focused techniques for short-term goals. She works with a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, ADHD, work-related strain, and trauma-related symptoms. Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments, and building skills people can use right away.
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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.
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach and online options that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist helps you set priorities and moves at your pace while you decide which changes feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving stress tolerance and relationships.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. That collaborative way helps find what works and keeps sessions focused on your priorities.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit work on your mental health into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in or have shorter exchanges between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and can help maintain continuity when routines change.
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