About Lakeithia
Lakeithia Clayton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings a practical, person-focused style to therapy. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, career crossroads, and mood challenges. Lakeithia uses straightforward conversation and tools to help people manage day-to-day strain and make clearer decisions.
She focuses on what matters most to each person. Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-oriented. She helps clients spot patterns, try new skills, and set small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
The work blends listening with practical strategies for coping and problem solving. Her background includes five years listed experience as a clinician and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - MS LCSW C10962, TX LCSW 104165. That experience informs a calm, steady approach to common life stresses.
Lakeithia often draws on cognitive and narrative ideas to reshape difficult thoughts and stories people tell themselves. Therapy may include acceptance-based and motivational tools to build clarity and commitment to change. She also uses solution-focused techniques to keep work concrete and time efficient.
Those methods aim to help people move from feeling stuck to taking manageable steps forward. Lakeithia aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients set the pace. Sessions explore what is useful now and what skills can be practiced between meetings.
Her approach suits someone who wants clear guidance, simple tools, and steady support while handling life’s transitions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful when someone wants to live more in line with what matters despite anxiety or low mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying simple experiments to change thoughts and behavior. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving under stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and emphasizes empathy, listening, and the client’s own capacity to find solutions; it supports people who need a calm space to sort things out.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting them to what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can be faster to arrange and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging suits brief check-ins, daily support, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to continue therapy during busy schedules and life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi
- Languages
- English