LaShonda "Ann" Aycock
Supportive LCSW for practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About LaShonda
LaShonda "Ann" Aycock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in North Carolina. She uses straightforward, practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and other life challenges. Ann focuses on family and parenting issues among many concerns and aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard.
She brings 10 years of experience to sessions and mixes evidence-based methods with practical problem solving. Ann leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
Background and approach
She uses Solution-Focused techniques to set clear goals and find workable steps forward. Mindfulness practices are offered to help reduce reactivity and build calm. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs support finding their own reasons to change.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s strengths and situation, not a fixed formula. Ann describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens, asks questions, and helps people pick tools that fit their daily lives.
The work often includes simple exercises to try between sessions and discussion of what did or didn’t help. People meet with Ann by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and costs vary by location and therapist availability.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows.
Therapeutic tools adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and building a trusting relationship. Ann uses this approach to understand each person’s priorities and to shape the work around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions she helps people spot unhelpful thinking and practices small, doable changes that can improve mood and behavior.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Ann works together with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That collaborative decision helps keep the work relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when screens aren’t ideal, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to work on stress, parenting concerns, relationships, or mood from home or on the go.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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