About J'Kea
Dr. J'Kea Starks is a Licensed Professional Counselor with six years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and clear.
Her approach focuses on listening, practical strategies, and steady support so people feel understood while they work toward goals. Dr. Starks creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what feels hard.
She helps people sort through family conflict, relationship strain, and the emotional fallout of trauma and loss.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns like addictions, impulsivity, phobias, and feelings of emptiness. Her work blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to calm overwhelming emotion and build tolerance for stress.
Motivational interviewing techniques help with readiness to change and sustaining progress. Dr. Starks also draws on narrative ideas to help people reframe painful stories about themselves.
That can be useful for guilt, shame, self-harm histories, or recovery from sexual assault and abuse. She supports people coping with life transitions, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and conducted via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Dr. Starks is based in Mississippi and works with adults who want practical strategies and steady encouragement while they make changes.
How therapy approaches translate online
Dr. Starks blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness methods to help people change how they feel and act. Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and guided toward their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or phobias. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice sensations and calm strong emotions, which can help with stress, impulsivity, and cravings.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions match changing needs and progress is practical and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility and consistent access to care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions and live chat work well if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions and quick practical guidance. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist 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
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