About Lakisha
Dr. Lakisha Ellison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety and other life stresses. She focuses on practical support for issues like trauma, parenting concerns, relationship struggles, and mood differences such as bipolar disorder.
Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and direct. Dr. Ellison uses a client-centered approach that keeps each person’s goals in view.
She combines familiar tools from cognitive behavioral work and emotion-focused methods to help people identify unhelpful patterns and build new skills.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward strategies clients can try between meetings. She pays attention to how early experiences shape current feelings and relationships. Attachment-based ideas help her map patterns that show up in intimacy and family dynamics.
That lens can make it easier to name why certain reactions happen and what might shift them. Her background includes long-term work with survivors of trauma, people facing identity and sexuality questions, and parents navigating blended family or adoption issues. Dr.
Ellison also supports those coping with career stress, first responder strain, abandonment concerns, and adjustment after major life changes. Dr. Ellison integrates practical coping tools with creative practices like aromatherapy and healing rituals when appropriate.
She aims to help people feel more authentic and empowered in everyday life. Sessions are offered in English and held from North Carolina.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Dr. Ellison often uses attachment-based ideas to trace how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and what can be changed to feel safer and more connected.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the person’s experience and goals. This means sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and proceed at their pace while the therapist listens and reflects.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Ellison discusses options and helps decide whether attachment-focused work, emotion-focused methods, or practical skill-building like cognitive techniques will best meet a person’s needs and preferences. The plan can shift as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options allow scheduling flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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