About Keesha
Keesha Barthelemy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings three years of clinical experience to her practice. She speaks English and Haitian Creole and aims to create a straightforward space for people to talk about stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship struggles.
Keesha focuses on helping people handle everyday pressure and bigger life shifts. She works with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with mood disorders, ADHD, and substance-related problems. Her style is warm and direct. Keesha emphasizes practical tools and clear steps clients can use between sessions.
She values strong communication and a steady therapeutic relationship as the base for change. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods to follow the person's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
Motivational and solution-focused techniques help people set short-term goals and stay motivated. Keesha works with issues that often come together, including codependency, body image, money and financial stress, fatherhood issues, and feelings of isolation. She offers work that respects cultural differences and the realities of daily life.
Her goal is to help people build skills that fit their routines and strengths.
Approaches that fit online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s priorities and experience. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the individual, which can help with stress, family concerns, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to find patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. It uses simple exercises and homework to change how someone thinks and acts, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and manage strong emotions. These practices can be brief and easy to use during daily routines to help with anger, trauma reactions, or panic moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, test different methods, and pick techniques that fit the client's needs and preferences. This happens together so treatment stays practical and focused.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is enough. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, timely check-ins and can help keep momentum between longer appointments. These options help people access care from different places and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole