About Lakishia
Lakishia Bussell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and mood concerns. She uses a respectful, nonjudgmental style and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Her approach aims to empower clients rather than tell them what to do.
She draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on each person’s goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice different coping skills.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques are brought in when relationship patterns and emotional bonds need attention. Lakishia describes her style as encouraging and interactive. She avoids stigmatizing labels and works side by side with clients to set clear, achievable goals.
Sessions often include problem-solving, skill-building, and reflecting on what matters most to the person seeking help. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support people who want to change habits or manage strong feelings. These tools can be useful for managing anger, grief, substance concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Lakishia has three years of experience working directly as an LCSW and draws on a longer history in mental health practice. People who choose her can expect a collaborative pace and practical suggestions they can try between meetings.
She welcomes conversations about parenting challenges, relationship struggles, and life transitions, and will work with each person to shape a plan that fits their daily life.
How Lakishia uses proven approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on what matters most to the person. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify goals and choices. This approach works well when someone needs steady support while sorting priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new coping skills for anxiety, mood shifts, and ADHD-related challenges. Mindfulness practices are used to help notice sensations and reduce reactivity in stressful moments.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Lakishia collaborates with each person to choose methods that suit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pacing and techniques so the work feels relevant and manageable rather than prescribed.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people speak face to face, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging helps maintain momentum between meetings. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue even when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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