About LaKeesha
Dr. LaKeesha Woods is an MD with 13 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. She offers a warm, client-centered way of working that focuses on practical steps people can use every day.
Her style is supportive and collaborative, and she listens for each person’s strengths and goals. Dr. Woods uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing to build readiness for change and solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals. These approaches are mixed to match what the person wants to work on. She has worked with people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, trauma, and addictions.
She supports parents dealing with family strain and people dealing with career stress, anger, and self-esteem struggles. ADHD is listed among her focus areas and she brings practical strategies to help with attention and organization challenges. Her background includes clinical practice and consulting in the personal sector, with a focus on whole-person well-being and life purpose.
She pays attention to multicultural experiences and how prejudice or discrimination can affect mental health. Sessions emphasize collaboration, respect, and building on strengths. In therapy she helps people identify goals, practice new skills, and develop tools to manage symptoms day to day.
The work is paced to each person’s needs and changes as those needs change.
How practical therapy methods work online
Client-centered therapy is built around listening closely and following what matters most to the person. The therapist prioritizes your goals, reflects concerns back, and helps you identify strengths to use between sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches clear tools for changing unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. That collaborative process helps tailor tools and steps to what actually helps you in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you use visual cues for exercises and role play. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you want a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, brief skill practice, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use methods consistently.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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