Dr. Lakisha Brimage , LPCC, LPC-MHSP

Dr. Lakisha Brimage is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) practicing in Tennessee. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a focus on women's issues alongside a broad range of concerns. Her work centers on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and family matters.

She uses a client-centered style to create a respectful, listening-based space. Sessions often combine practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness skills and solution-focused techniques. Those methods are used to address everyday problems like sleep struggles, parenting stress, body image, and work challenges.

Dr. Brimage also supports people facing trauma, grief, anger, and intimacy-related worries. She helps clients who are coping with life changes, caregiver stress, domestic violence histories, or complicated family-of-origin issues. ADHD and bipolar concerns are included among the issues she addresses.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Clients and therapist work together to set goals, practice new strategies, and track small steps of progress. The aim is to build skills that fit each person's life and values.

Dr. Brimage conducts sessions in English. She draws on motivational interviewing when people need help finding internal motivation and on solution-focused ideas to map clear next steps. Her background combines counseling practice and clinical leadership, with experience across diverse settings.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting each person where they are. In practice this means the therapist reflects concerns back, asks what matters most, and helps clients set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Brimage will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. Together they will try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay focused and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between sessions or use brief, focused exchanges when a shorter touchpoint is helpful. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, work breaks, and different communication styles while working toward clear goals.