LaQunana Cistrunk , LCSW

LaQunana Cistrunk is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a straightforward, person-focused approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with adults who are facing life changes or questions about identity, including people in the LGBT community. LaQunana practices from Mississippi and has 13 years of experience as an LCSW.

Her sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps clients name what matters most and set small, doable steps. Conversations often focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and reducing shame or isolation.

LaQunana draws from several well-known approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client's experience. Emotionally-focused and solution-focused tools appear when relationship patterns or immediate goals need attention.

She has additional experience supporting people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, aging and geriatric matters, body image and gender dysphoria, and health-related challenges such as HIV/AIDS. She also helps with communication problems, commitment worries, and coping with isolation.

LaQunana aims to create a calm space where people can talk through painful topics and practice new ways of responding. She encourages realistic goals and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to change feelings and behavior. It can help with depression, anxiety, and self-esteem struggles. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and can discover their own solutions; it supports identity work and ongoing personal growth.

Choosing the right approach is often a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, needs, and preferences and then use ACT, CBT, client-centered methods, or a mix that fits. That collaborative process means the plan can shift as work progresses and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let people see facial expressions and work through emotions in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.