About Lakitta
Lakitta Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience in mental health. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She approaches each person with respect and a practical focus on daily coping.
She offers clear, direct support for depression, trauma, and anger. She also helps with relationship strain, addiction concerns, grief, and challenges around intimacy. Parents and people facing career changes or caregiving stress can find focused, solution-oriented help.
Background and approach
Her background includes studies at Tougaloo College, Jackson State University, and Loyola University of Chicago. She also has experience as a counselor supervisor and educator, which informs the way she structures sessions and sets goals. Lakitta uses several common approaches in her work.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and teach practical skills. She applies solution-focused ideas to set short-term, achievable steps.
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs. She listens for strengths and builds on them while addressing immediate problems. Her style is hopeful and work-focused, emphasizing effort and small changes that add up.
People who want straightforward guidance with clear tools tend to fit well with her approach. She encourages courage and steady effort, and works collaboratively to set goals and track progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person's lead, listens closely, and adapts the pace to what feels manageable. This approach helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and a gentle way to talk through feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new coping skills. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, mood challenges, and learning concrete tools to change daily patterns.
Solution-focused therapy zooms in on small, achievable steps and on what is already working. It helps people set short-term goals and notice progress quickly, which can be motivating during busy or stressful periods.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick tools that fit the person’s needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or reminders. These options give flexibility so therapy can happen around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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