About Lakisha
Lakisha (Kennedy) Hudson uses a person-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with ten years of experience. She focuses on common and persistent concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, intimacy struggles, parenting questions, and coping with life changes.
Lakisha blends practical skills with listening. She helps people name what’s causing pain, try different ways of responding, and build more steady routines.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward strategies from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness practice to manage upsetting thoughts and strong feelings. Her background includes work in nonprofit programs, schools, correctional settings, and independent practice. That variety shaped how she adapts sessions for different life situations and cultural experiences.
She also brings experience supporting veterans and people who face multicultural challenges. Therapy with her balances emotional support and clear tools. She uses elements of dialectical behavior approaches and motivational interviewing to encourage realistic change and better communication.
The focus is on short, usable steps rather than jargon. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Fees vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is set according to therapist availability.
Approaches that inform online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and helping the person set their own goals, which is useful for issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. This approach can be helpful for impulsivity, intense mood swings, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That process includes checking in and modifying the plan over time so it fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats increase flexibility for people juggling work, family, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Florida
- Languages
- English