About Keisha
Keisha Barnhill is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings nine years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, mood struggles, and life transitions. Keisha aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for busy lives.
She uses clear, goal-oriented methods so people know what to expect from sessions. Keisha listens for patterns in relationships, mood, and coping.
Background and approach
Then she helps clients try small changes that can make daily life easier. Sessions are grounded and down-to-earth rather than technical. Keisha works with a wide range of concerns, including grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, body image, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues linked to addiction, impulsivity, and attachment wounds. When relevant, she includes work on family of origin themes and blended family challenges. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed styles.
Keisha uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to examine thoughts and behaviors. She brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness exercises to build tolerance for hard feelings. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, and solution-focused steps support concrete progress.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online through video, phone, chat, or text. Costs vary with location and the subscription model that is used. To begin, a short online questionnaire and scheduling step match people to a time that fits their schedule.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Keisha uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to shape her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow, and it gives practical exercises to try between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy combines mindfulness with values-based goals to help people live in ways that matter even when feelings are difficult.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Together they choose techniques to try and adjust them based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video lets people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone calls can be quicker or use less bandwidth, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing written work. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English