About Keesha
Keesha Turner is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with a decade of clinical experience. She focuses on building a trusting relationship and helping people find practical tools that fit their life. She listens first and works with each person to shape therapy around their needs.
Her work centers on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy issues. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, eating and body-image concerns, self-esteem struggles, career stress, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Compassion fatigue and caregiver stress are part of her practice too. In sessions she uses an adaptable, person-centered approach. She blends cognitive and behavioral strategies with emotion-focused methods to help people manage strong feelings and change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness and acceptance ideas are included to help people tolerate distress and stay focused on their values. Keesha also brings experience addressing attachment and abandonment worries, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, and aging or chronic illness challenges. She works with issues around communication, commitment, codependency, and control in relationships.
People who come to her can expect straightforward conversation and concrete coping skills. She aims to create a toolbox of strategies clients can use between sessions. Her style is warm, respectful, and goal-oriented, tailored to each person’s situation and priorities.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and pick actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships to improve connection and communication.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try strategies, see what works, and adjust the approach as needed so work in sessions matches real-life needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and maintain contact during difficult transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English