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Keesha Turner

Keesha Turner, LPC

Louisiana

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Licensed counselor - Trauma and relationships

  • ACT methods
  • CBT strategies
  • Mindfulness skills

About Keesha

Keesha Turner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 10 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting and intimacy-related issues. Keesha also works with eating and self-esteem concerns, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.

Keesha keeps sessions direct and practical. She helps people build a toolbox of skills they can use between meetings. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness-influenced practices to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that keep people stuck.

She uses client-centered methods to make room for each person's perspective. Emotion-focused ideas guide work on connections and closeness in relationships. When problems are intense, elements of dialectical behavior therapy are added to teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills.

Keesha has experience with a range of specific challenges. These include abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and body image concerns. She also addresses commitment and communication problems, codependency, and the dynamics that can appear after adoption or foster care experiences.

The tone in sessions is straightforward and collaborative. Keesha listens and adapts conversations to what each person needs. People can expect practical strategies, skills practice, and discussion of how these steps fit into everyday life.

How therapeutic approaches are used online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing painful thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that reflect personal values. Online sessions using ACT often include values clarification and simple behavioral steps to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns. CBT work online commonly uses brief homework tasks and tracked progress to shift responses to stress and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches in collaboration to see what helps in practice. That process can be adjusted over time based on what a person notices and reports.

Session formats should be confirmed before booking since the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Talk with the therapist about scheduling, length of sessions, and how skills practice will be supported between meetings so therapy fits into daily life.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issues

Also works with

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

10+ years

Listed in

Louisiana

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Keesha works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, parenting, intimacy issues, eating and self-esteem, career changes, and compassion fatigue.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is eclectic and practical, using client-centered conversation plus CBT, ACT, EFT, and DBT elements to teach skills and shift patterns of thinking and behaving.

How much experience does she have?

She has 10 years of professional experience working with adults on a range of concerns including trauma and relationship issues.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Louisiana and practices from that location.

Does she work in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

She accepts international clients; confirm any time zone or regional considerations when scheduling.

How are sessions scheduled and what does cost look like?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; specific rates depend on where you are based.

How do I start working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.

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