About Lakesha
Lakesha Stidum is a licensed clinical social worker who has been helping people through individual therapy since 2014. She brings eight years of post-master's experience and focuses on practical strategies for problems like anxiety and depression. She writes simply and listens carefully to each persons concerns.
She trained at Arkansas State University for her bachelors degree and earned a masters degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Lakesha holds LCSW credentials and is licensed in Texas and California as well as Arkansas.
Background and approach
Those licenses reflect her work across different settings over the years. In sessions she often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to change habits or build new routines.
These are tools she pairs with a client-centered way of working that keeps the persons goals in view. Clients can expect a straightforward style that focuses on small, achievable steps. Conversations cover what feels most urgent and what can realistically change between sessions.
Lakesha aims to make therapy a usable part of everyday life rather than a separate, abstract task. She works with common life stresses such as parenting strain, relationship problems, grief, and issues related to work and identity. Her approach also addresses more complex concerns like trauma history, addiction, and mood conditions by breaking them into manageable tasks and decisions.
Lakesha welcomes questions and encourages people to start by describing what matters most now.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the persons own goals and feelings, giving space for people to set the pace and priorities in sessions. It helps when someone wants a supportive relationship and clear guidance that follows their values and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches small skills to change patterns that keep problems going. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and habit change because it breaks big issues into concrete steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes coping skills for handling strong emotions and improving how people relate to others. It is helpful for learning distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try techniques that fit the person's life, and adjust the plan as needed. That shared decision-making helps find methods that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises that need visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or commute. Live chat and text messaging let people check in quickly, send short updates, or have a brief focused conversation between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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