Dr. LaKisha Hudson, LPC, LCPC
Compassionate, body-aware therapy for real relationships
About LaKisha
Dr. LaKisha Hudson is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing from Illinois. She brings 25 years of experience to conversations about relationships, intimacy, stress, anxiety, and life changes.
People find her direct and grounded style useful when they need practical steps and emotional understanding. Dr. Hudson blends talk and body-centered work, drawing on somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to shape sessions around real-world change. Sessions focus on clear goals and small skills that can be used between meetings. Her background spans counseling education and long clinical practice.
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and has worked with issues including trauma, grief, parenting concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include relationship configurations such as polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, and topics around kink and alternative sex culture. Dr.
Hudson speaks English and practices in Illinois. Online options include video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. The process aims to match people with a therapist whose approach fits their needs and goals.
Online therapy that uses body and behavior-focused tools
Somatic-informed work helps people notice sensations and how emotions live in the body. In online sessions this may include grounding, breath awareness, and simple movement cues to shift stuck patterns and reduce reactivity. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, trauma responses, and intimacy concerns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them. It teaches skills for noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can support decisions about relationships, career, and life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, using empathic listening and collaboration to build trust and a clear direction for therapy.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process may shift as progress is made and new challenges emerge.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for busy lives. Video and phone let people preserve conversational flow, while chat and messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapeutic tools in daily life and to keep momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, South Carolina
- Languages
- English