About J'Kea
Dr. J'Kea Starks welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or life changes. She writes plainly and listens carefully so people can say what matters to them.
Her approach aims to make the first steps toward change feel doable and supported. Starks is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Mississippi with six years of experience. She helps people work through relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction struggles, and trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
She also addresses mood challenges such as depression, bipolar symptoms, anger, and disruptive mood concerns like DMDD. In sessions she focuses on creating an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. People can expect direct conversation, practical skills, and time to process grief or loss.
She pays attention to motivation and confidence so clients can try new steps between sessions. Her work includes tools drawn from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to each person's needs and pace.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and stronger coping strategies. Starks also supports people facing caregiver stress, isolation, shame or guilt, impulsivity, and process addictions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, helping people move from feeling stuck to trying small, realistic changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Starks uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's needs and priorities. This approach means the therapist listens deeply, follows the client's lead, and supports what matters most to the person seeking help.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and build practical skills for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust as needed so sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online formats include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving options for different rhythms and needs. Video calls allow more face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English