About Lakesha
Lakesha Stidum is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience providing individual therapy. She began her clinical work in 2014 and uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people navigate difficult times. Lakesha holds a Master’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Bachelor’s degree from Arkansas State University.
She is licensed as an LCSW in Texas and California. Lakesha typically helps people coping with depression and anxiety.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and challenges tied to parenting or career changes. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings, not just talk about feelings. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative.
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to make changes but feel stuck or unsure how to start. Lakesha also uses client-centered and narrative techniques to center each person’s experience.
That means sessions follow the client’s priorities and pay attention to personal stories and strengths. Practical skills and small experiments are offered when they fit the person’s goals. She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, ADHD, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Lakesha aims to create a clear plan with each person and to adapt methods to fit individual needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. In practice this means the therapist asks about the client’s goals and shapes sessions around what matters most to them, which is useful for relationship, identity, and life-change concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and homework exercises.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It can help people who struggle with intense feelings, interpersonal conflict, or patterns of impulsive behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as goals shift.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good when visual connection helps the work. Phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in during a break. Live chat and messaging are useful for ongoing support, quick updates, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- 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
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Texas, California
- Languages
- English