About LaDerida
LaDerida Stokes-Roberts is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing trauma, abuse, grief, low self-esteem, career challenges, and ADHD-related struggles. She draws on 15 years of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. The tone in sessions is respectful and down-to-earth.
Her approach treats the person, not just the problem. She asks questions to understand what matters most and builds small, doable steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on real-life strategies for coping, improving focus, and rebuilding confidence. LaDerida uses several evidence-based methods to guide her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing supports shifts in motivation when someone feels stuck. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of past hurt in manageable ways. Clients can expect a mix of talk, skill-building, and goal-setting.
She pays attention to strengths such as resilience and practical routines, then translates them into everyday changes. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear next steps at the end of each meeting. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and acknowledges that first step.
Her style is warm but straightforward, aimed at helping people move from feeling overwhelmed to more in control of their lives.
Approaches for online therapy and practical change
LaDerida commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that change how they feel. It’s useful for low mood, anxiety, focus problems, and workplace stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy looks at the effects of past hurt and teaches coping skills to manage strong reactions and rebuild day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach happens together. She will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what feels manageable. From that conversation she chooses methods and adapts them to the person’s pace and needs so the work fits into real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English