About Lakisha
Dr. Lakisha Ellison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing ADHD, anxiety, trauma, parenting stresses, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical for busy lives.
She brings 15 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns, including mood differences such as bipolar, intimacy issues, and the effects of adverse childhood experiences. She also supports people navigating LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and healing after abuse or domestic violence.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses family-of-origin patterns, communication problems, and challenges around commitment and codependency. Her style is down-to-earth and client-centered. She uses simple, concrete tools people can try between sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, and attachment-focused ideas are woven into conversations as useful options rather than strict rules. Dr. Ellison describes her approach as strength-based and collaborative.
She pays attention to each person’s environment and life story while encouraging practical steps toward clearer communication, better coping, and stronger emotional regulation. Humor and holistic practices are sometimes part of sessions when they fit the person's needs. She offers a professional, respectful space for people ready to do the work of change.
The emphasis is on building authentic, resilient ways of living and relating, with guidance that is steady and realistic.
Approach-focused care online
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how trust, closeness, and past hurts influence relationships and emotional reactions, which can help with intimacy issues and family conflict.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals and pace first. The therapist offers empathic listening, validation, and reflection to help people find their own solutions and grow self-awareness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and for practical skills people can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and time permit. Phone sessions work well when a shorter check-in or lower data use is needed. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility so people can use the format that best fits their routine and energy.
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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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