About Lakisha
Lakisha Boykin, LCMHC, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are. Her goal is to make the first steps feel manageable.
She offers a calm, accepting approach to difficult feelings. Lakisha uses practical methods to help people sort thoughts and emotions. She draws from client-centered work to listen without judgment and to center what matters to each person.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that can change how someone feels. Her practice pays attention to life events that shake routines - divorce, caregiving strain, job stress, postpartum depression, and other transitions. She can also support people facing money worries, workplace challenges, or the aftermath of natural or human-caused disasters.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps forward. Therapy with Lakisha tends to be warm and straightforward. She prefers a collaborative style that asks what a person wants and helps plan how to get there.
Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when people want to build momentum for change. With six years of clinical experience and an LCMHC credential, Lakisha has worked in community settings and a behavioral health walk-in clinic. She is based in North Carolina and offers sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a relationship that reflects each person's goals; it helps when someone needs acceptance and a nonjudgmental space to figure things out. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and helps people try small, practical changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches gentle attention to the present moment and can help with stress, anxiety, and coping during transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That plan can change over time as progress or new concerns emerge, and decisions are made together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats aim to increase flexibility and make regular support more accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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