Laketia Carrell, LPC

Laketia Carrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with twenty years of combined therapeutic and mental health coaching experience. She supports individuals confronting anxiety and depression, professional or academic challenges, interpersonal conflicts, and codependency, guiding clients toward practical strategies for daily functioning and long-term well-being.

Her primary methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, mindfulness practices, and behavioral interventions. Through these approaches she helps clients examine the thoughts and beliefs that undermine self-esteem and self-confidence, identify self-sabotaging behaviors, and address patterns that interfere with academic or professional success and relationships.

Laketia emphasizes a collaborative journey rather than offering fixed answers. She works alongside clients to explore new perspectives, try different techniques, and develop personalized solutions shaped by each person’s beliefs, personality, character, and environment. Her work blends therapeutic care and coaching to help clients discover practical options and move forward from difficult situations.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a supportive environment where clients lead the conversation and the therapist reflects and validates their experience. This approach helps people gain clarity, build self-understanding, and strengthen confidence in their own choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and to develop new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and difficulties that involve recurring thought-behavior cycles.

Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to help clients notice thoughts and emotions without judgment, which can reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together - Laketia and the client will collaborate to select or blend methods that best match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. Licensed professionals adapt techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in this process through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and access support from home or work while working toward measurable goals.