About Lakishia
Lakishia Bussell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and life changes. She presents a calm, encouraging presence and aims to make therapy feel practical and grounded. Her approach is meant to help people find steps that fit their lives.
She uses a person-centered stance in sessions, focusing on each individual’s goals and strengths. Conversations are collaborative - the therapist listens, reflects, and offers tools rather than giving orders.
Background and approach
Clients can expect straightforward guidance and coping strategies they can try between sessions. Bussell draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that cause distress. She also uses emotionally focused techniques to help people understand and manage strong feelings that get in the way of relationships.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing ideas appear when helpful to build awareness and motivation for change. Her background includes work across a range of concerns such as addiction, grief, parenting challenges, bipolar mood management, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2012 in North Carolina, and she brings practical, experience-based skills to sessions.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on what matters most now. Lakishia aims to reduce overwhelm by breaking problems into clear, doable steps. She invites people to bring their real-life struggles and work toward manageable change together.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and strengths and involves listening, reflecting, and helping the client steer the work. It helps when someone wants an approach that follows their pace and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It provides practical exercises to change thinking patterns and everyday behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and work through painful emotions, which can ease relationship strain or personal distress. It’s useful when strong feelings keep getting in the way of making progress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the client’s feedback guides which techniques are used.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be a good low-bandwidth option, chat or text fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English