About Lakira
Lakira Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, addiction, grief, and relationship or family struggles. Her language is straightforward and she aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
She trained at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia State University.
Background and approach
Early in her career she worked with youth in foster care, foster parents, and birth parents working toward reunification. That work shaped her understanding of adoption, attachment, and foster care issues. Lakira uses a warm, interactive style that centers respect and cultural awareness.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic ideas, and Client-Centered Therapy to fit a person’s needs. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and honest conversation. Common topics she addresses include trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes.
She also helps with communication problems, codependency, fatherhood issues, and the emotional impact of divorce or separation. Her sessions can include coaching elements when helpful, such as motivation for change and problem-solving around career or parenting. Lakira aims to empower people with tools they can use between sessions and to help them build small steps toward lasting change.
Approach and remote care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify personal values and take small actions toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience and priorities, using empathic listening to help someone feel heard and to guide their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they adjust techniques and pace so sessions stay useful and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, parenting, and other responsibilities while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
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