About Lakira
Lakira Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting challenges, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to make conversations feel respectful and straightforward.
Williams began her clinical work in child welfare, offering counseling to youth in foster care, foster parents, and birth parents working toward reunification. She has also supported young mothers, people managing addictive behaviors, and adolescents with behavioral health concerns.
Background and approach
That early work shaped her practical focus on safety, stability, and problem-solving. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and Psychodynamic ideas to match each person’s needs. She combines talking, skill-building, and reflection so clients can try changes between sessions.
Treatment plans are shaped to fit daily life and real-world challenges. She pays attention to cultural background and how it affects a person’s goals and responses to care. Conversations are tailored with sensitivity to identity, family history, and practical constraints like work or parenting time.
The goal is steady progress, not sudden perfection. Williams worked in New York and now practices in North Carolina. She uses collaborative dialogue and clear steps so people can move toward goals like improved mood, better coping, clearer communication, or reduced substance use.
She focuses on what will help clients manage the next day, week, and month.
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small actions that matter. It helps people choose meaningful steps even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the conversation, offering empathy and space so clients can find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit. That collaborative process can shift over time as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, coaching prompts, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New York, Washington
- Languages
- English