Lakira Williams
Family-focused therapist with practical tools
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lakira
Lakira Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. She brings 12 years of hands-on experience helping parents, teens, and individuals navigate stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship challenges. She is based in North Carolina and trained in social work practice in New York and Virginia.
Her early work included counseling youth in foster care, foster parents, and birth parents working toward reunification.
Background and approach
She has supported young mothers, people struggling with addiction, and adolescents with behavioral and mental health symptoms. That experience shaped a practical, steady approach to family problems and parenting questions. Lakira’s style is warm and interactive.
She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while paying attention to cultural differences that can affect care. Sessions are conversational and tailored to each person’s needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy to help clients make changes.
She mixes techniques to fit the situation rather than follow one fixed method. Work with Lakira often starts by identifying one or two immediate concerns. From there she helps set small goals and practices new skills that can ease daily life.
She aims to give parents and families tools they can use between sessions. Parents and caregivers who want clear guidance and compassionate support may find her approach practical and approachable. Lakira encourages steady progress and partnership in making changes that matter.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where behavior change matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and parenting habits. Client-Centered Therapy creates a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build understanding and confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. That process is collaborative - you and the therapist decide together what feels most useful and adjust the plan as you go.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy families. Video calls let you meet face-to-face from home. Phone sessions work when video is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for shorter check-ins, reflections, or scheduling. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into parenting schedules and real life while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New York, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Lakira
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point