Keisha Hawthorne-Jones
Supportive licensed social worker for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LICSW, MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Keisha
Keisha Hawthorne-Jones is a licensed social worker in Maryland who uses a client-centered way of working. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and motivation. Her style is practical and respectful, helping people name what matters and build on their strengths.
She draws on 19 years of professional experience to guide conversations and suggest tools that fit each person’s life. Sessions often include clear steps to manage low mood, mood swings, and difficult transitions.
Background and approach
Keisha pays attention to trauma, abuse, and compassion fatigue when they affect daily functioning. Her practice also addresses relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, and communication problems. She supports people facing adoption and foster care questions, attachment difficulties, blended family stress, and family of origin issues.
She brings steady, calm guidance during separation, divorce, and major life changes. Keisha blends practical methods like cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to produce short-term gains and longer-term skills. Motivational interviewing is used to strengthen commitment to change.
Her approach aims to be collaborative and straightforward so parents and individuals can try new ways of coping right away. Sessions are available in English and delivered through video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online work and practical steps
Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead. This approach focuses on strengths and what the person already knows about their life. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk and decide what to try next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions interact. Sessions break problems into small parts and teach concrete skills to reduce anxiety or low mood. This method is useful for stress, depression, bipolar mood management, and many parenting-related challenges.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple practices. It helps reduce reactivity, manage strong emotions, and calm the mind during times of high stress or grief.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits each person and their family concerns.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, follow up between visits, and keep momentum when schedules shift. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through parenting choices, and support coping during life changes.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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