- Years in practice
- 8
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Arkansas, Texas, California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Parenting issues
- Focus
- Anger management
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Lakesha
Lakesha Stidum is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She practices in Texas and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Lakesha uses clear, goal-oriented strategies so conversations lead to real steps forward.
She helps people figure out what matters most and how to move toward it. Sessions tend to focus on small, doable changes rather than big promises.
Background and approach
Lakesha often combines problem-solving with reflections that help clients see patterns in their choices and relationships. Her training includes approaches that address thoughts, behaviors, and motivation. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding.
Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when people want to make lasting behavior change and need help finding their own reasons to act. Lakesha also draws on Client-Centered and Narrative techniques to listen closely and help people tell their stories in clearer ways. This can help with identity issues, grief, and feeling stuck after life changes.
Sessions are practical, collaborative, and paced to each person's needs. She offers multiple online formats so people can fit support into busy lives. Sessions are provided in English and follow the scope of practice for a Texas LCSW.
If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
What Lakesha works with
Everything Lakesha lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lakesha helps people with.
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lakesha lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Lakesha's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person where they are. The therapist mirrors concerns, asks open questions, and helps clients find their own answers, which can be useful for parenting stress and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple experiments and skills to test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques fit comfort and priorities.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and deeper work. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use written reflection when that feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy family schedules and changing routines.
Questions people ask about Lakesha
What concerns does Lakesha help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including parenting, anger, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship matters.
What is Lakesha's therapy style like?
Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear goals and small steps clients can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Lakesha has eight years of clinical experience working with people facing depression, anxiety, and related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Texas and practicing from that state.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Lakesha?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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