About Lakawthra
Lakawthra Cox is a Licensed Professional Counselor with fifteen years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or family concerns. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.
She encourages clients to see themselves as experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping skills, and strategies you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
The aim is to make progress in concrete ways rather than only talking about problems. Born and raised across Europe, she brings a multicultural perspective to her work. Her background includes time as a military service member and experience with people from many cultural and religious traditions.
This helps her relate to varied life experiences and worldview differences. Her practice covers a broad range of concerns including parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career changes, compassion fatigue, chronic pain and illness, and issues tied to immigration or first responder roles. She also supports people dealing with divorce, domestic violence, eating concerns, and isolation.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with international clients as well. She provides a range of online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and lifestyle. The focus is on creating a plan that fits the person in front of her.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many clients benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and goals. One common approach is cognitive-behavioral work, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. Another is trauma-informed care, which uses stabilizing skills, pacing, and grounding to help people process distressing memories and reduce their impact on daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with you about your needs, try techniques that fit your goals, and adjust the plan as you make progress. That process helps ensure methods match what you want to work on and how you prefer to engage in therapy.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you work face-to-face when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking. These options give flexibility so people can choose formats that match their schedule and comfort.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English