About LaQunana
LaQunana Cistrunk is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who uses practical, people-focused therapy to help with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and major life changes. She draws on a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at real-life coping skills.
LaQunana has 13 years of experience working with concerns such as stress, grief, isolation, and identity questions. She pays attention to how life events and relationships shape feelings, and she helps people untangle those patterns.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses issues tied to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, and aging. Clients also come for help with body image, guilt and shame, communication and commitment problems, and challenges related to gender dysphoria or HIV/AIDS. She uses therapy to support clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better day-to-day functioning.
The focus is on small, useful changes that add up over time. LaQunana blends acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive work, emotion-focused methods, and solution-focused steps. That mix lets her offer both longer-term healing and short-term problem solving.
She adapts tools to each person rather than following a single script. LaQunana practices across Mississippi and offers services in English. People who need sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging can work with her.
She works with individuals who want practical support and honest conversation about their lives.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then pick actions that match their values. This can help when anxiety or low mood keeps someone from doing things that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress when someone wants tools to change daily routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses to relationships and important life events, which can help with attachment issues and intense emotions.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they choose and adjust methods so the sessions feel useful and aligned with real-life needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use body language and a face-to-face feel, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging provide short check-ins, quick problem-solving, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family life, or travel while keeping care consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Iowa, Nevada
- Languages
- English