Dr. Lakisha Ellison

Dr. Lakisha Ellison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, career stress, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, with a focus on helping people become their most authentic selves.

She began her social work career in 2005, working with children and families across many backgrounds. Over time she has supported people through depression, grief and loss, attachment concerns, substance-related problems, domestic violence, and adjustment struggles. Her current focus includes sexual trauma, anxiety, and the effects of adverse childhood experiences across the lifespan.

Her counseling style centers on the client and uses straightforward, practical techniques. She often incorporates elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to teach skills people can use between sessions. She also draws on solution-focused ideas, motivational interviewing, and reality-based strategies while keeping a strength-based social work perspective.

Dr. Ellison integrates holistic practices and a sense of humor when appropriate, sometimes offering rituals or aromatherapy as part of her work. She pays attention to how culture, race, gender, and sexual identity affect a person’s struggles and choices. Many clients seek her help for matters involving attachment, communication problems, blended family issues, and parenting stress.

She frames therapy as a collaborative journey that requires courage and effort. Prospective clients who are ready to begin can expect a supportive professional relationship aimed at practical change and greater self-expression.

How her approaches inform online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new, healthier ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and experience; the therapist listens carefully and supports self-directed growth and empowerment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Ellison will collaborate with each person to choose what feels most useful. Together they review goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on how well techniques are working in everyday life.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. It can also make it simpler to keep regular momentum while applying CBT skills or attachment-focused work between meetings. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt exercises, homework, and pacing to suit remote sessions and each person’s daily routine.