Lakesa Mace, LPC

Lakesa Mace is a licensed professional counselor with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and rebuild steady footing when emotions feel overwhelming. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can use each day.

She helps clients untangle feelings tied to grief, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Lakesa also addresses issues like body image, abandonment wounds, and social anxiety with clear, goal-focused work. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck.

Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, she helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. That approach is used to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change patterns that cause repeated stress. The work is collaborative and focused on small, doable changes.

Lakesa pays attention to communication struggles, control issues, and caregiver stress. She supports people wrestling with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and rebuilding self-love. Her style centers on practical skills, problem solving, and increasing emotional resilience.

Based in Texas, she brings a down-to-earth approach to therapy and aims to make sessions useful for everyday life. Lakesa accepts international clients and works with each person to set clear goals and track progress over time.

How CBT Shapes Online Work for Stress and Anxiety

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood. This approach is practical and usually includes homework between sessions to try new skills in everyday life.

In practice she applies CBT to worries, panic, social anxiety, and mood concerns. That can involve breaking problems into smaller steps, practicing new responses, and tracking what helps. The emphasis is on techniques you can use outside sessions to manage stress and build resilience.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide whether CBT or another helpful strategy fits their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can shift as goals change.

Confirm the available online session options before booking, since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, avoid travel time, and check in during breaks. It can also allow shorter or more frequent contact when that matches a person's needs.