About La
La Shekia Smith-Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, and relationship or family strain. She also supports people dealing with grief, anger, career questions, bipolar mood patterns, ADHD, and life transitions. Her work includes practical problem solving and coaching for daily challenges.
She uses straightforward conversation and focused goals to make progress. Sessions often look at what is happening now and what small steps could change daily life.
Background and approach
She values compassion and listens for the practical needs behind what people say. La Shekia draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also incorporates mindfulness to build attention skills and reduce reactivity, and narrative work to help people reframe their life stories. Her background includes seven years of direct clinical experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with practice in Nevada.
Prior roles involved work in health and human services, day treatment for children with severe emotional needs, early intervention case management, and supports for people with intellectual disability. That range informs a view of people as whole and complex. She prefers engaging by live video but also offers phone, chat, and text messaging when that fits the situation.
New clients begin by answering a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that match their timing and goals.
Therapy approaches and online options that fit your life
La Shekia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, then practice new ways of responding. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping problems.She also works with dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness techniques to build emotional regulation and present-moment awareness. DBT-style skills and mindfulness can help with strong emotions, stress, and improving reactions in difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that suit those goals, and adjust plans as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Live video lets visual cues guide the work and supports deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Arizona
- Languages
- English