About Lakisha
Dr. Lakisha Ellison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina who helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life transitions. She works with people facing ADHD, bipolar challenges, grief, and issues linked to adoption, attachment, or family conflict.
She also supports LGBT clients and those coping with the effects of abuse or disaster. Her style is down-to-earth and client-centered. She aims to make sessions engaging and practical.
Background and approach
She brings warmth, a sense of humor, and holistic elements such as aromatherapy and healing rituals when appropriate. Clinically, she draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people understand patterns and try new responses. She also uses dialectical skills and emotionally-focused methods to address intense feelings and improve closeness.
Sessions mix short-term tools with deeper work on life stories and relationships. With 15 years of practice, she began her social work career in 2005 working with children and families from varied backgrounds. Her experience includes supporting people affected by child abuse, domestic violence, substance use, and complex family dynamics.
That background informs how she sees strengths and risks in context. She emphasizes collaboration: clients and therapist set goals together and track progress. Her aim is to help people feel more authentic, steady, and confident in everyday life.
If a parent or individual is ready to make changes, she offers guided support for the next steps.
Approaches to Emotional Healing and Online Support
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand patterns of closeness, trust, and separation, and how to form steadier bonds in adult life.Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals and pace first. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions rather than prescribing fixes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low; live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins or shorter conversations. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and busy schedules while still accessing licensed professionals and consistent support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English