Dr. Lakisha Ellison , LCSW

Dr. Lakisha Ellison is a Doctor of Social Work and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina. She brings a grounded, client-centered approach to therapy and works with individuals, couples, and families across a wide range of concerns. Her practice includes support for LGBT clients, relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, career issues, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, along with focused attention on abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, and communication or control difficulties.

She offers specialized care for sexual trauma, anxiety, transgender individuals, and the lifelong effects of adverse childhood experiences. She also enjoys working with queer and lesbian women of color who are exploring the intersections of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Her clinical style is down-to-earth, engaging, and strengths-based, emphasizing authentic self-expression and empowerment.

Dr. Ellison frequently integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients apply skills between sessions, and she uses solution-focused strategies, motivational interviewing, reality-based methods, and elements of attachment-based and emotionally focused work when appropriate. She weaves humor and holistic practices such as aromatherapy and healing rituals into sessions as fits each person’s needs.

She values the therapeutic relationship as central to change and stands ready to support people taking courageous steps toward greater well-being and self-authenticity.

Therapeutic Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape patterns of connection and safety in adult life. It helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment, bonding, or repeating difficult relational patterns to identify those dynamics and build more secure ways of relating.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the person seeking help, offering a nonjudgmental space in which the therapist follows the client's lead. This approach supports self-exploration, emotional clarity, and personal growth, and is well suited to people working through identity, life transitions, or relationship decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to recognize unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to replace them with more adaptive strategies. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, stress management, and building coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Determining the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Lakisha Ellison collaborates with each person to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, drawing on different modalities as those needs evolve. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt strategies to fit a client’s pace and life circumstances.

Online therapy with Dr. Ellison is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for people balancing work, family, or other commitments. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home, and fit therapy into a busy schedule.