About J'Kea
Dr. J'Kea Starks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She listens without judgment and focuses on building confidence and motivation.
Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps toward change feel manageable. She creates a calm space where people can talk through grief, family problems, or feelings of emptiness. That space is meant for practical problem solving as well as emotional processing.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by what the person needs in the moment. Dr. Starks uses approaches that center the client's experience and that encourage new ways of thinking.
She often combines gentle questioning with practical tools to manage mood swings, anger, or compulsive behaviors. Small, concrete practices are introduced and reviewed over time. She also works on relationship and communication challenges and supports people dealing with addiction, trauma, or self-harm urges.
When concerns involve parenting stress, caregiver burnout, or life transitions, she helps people find clearer priorities and coping plans. With six years of clinical experience, Dr. Starks draws on methods like cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, narrative exploration, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions focus on achievable goals and real-world changes rather than abstract theory.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes understanding a person's view and helping them set their own goals, which can ease anxiety and build confidence.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and to change small behaviors that improve mood and reduce panic or worry.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple practices to the conversation, such as brief grounding or breathing exercises. These tools help reduce reactivity and increase awareness of emotions in the moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust based on what helps most. This collaboration makes it easier to pick strategies that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical options for busy or traveling people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat fits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into everyday schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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