About LaShonda
LaShonda "Ann" Aycock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in North Carolina. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. Ann aims to create a respectful, supportive space where people feel heard and can try practical steps forward.
Her sessions focus on straightforward tools you can use between meetings. She often blends client-centered talking with cognitive-behavioral techniques and solution-focused planning.
Background and approach
That means conversations center on your goals while identifying small changes that build momentum. Ann also uses mindfulness practices to help with overwhelming feelings and motivational interviewing to clarify what matters to you. These approaches are useful for coping with trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD challenges, and changes in life or career.
She tailors the work to each person’s situation and pace. She has worked with people facing body image issues, caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, and recovery from domestic violence or substance misuse. Sessions aim to strengthen communication, manage intense emotions, and rebuild a sense of control over daily life.
Initial meetings emphasize practical planning and clear next steps. Over time the work moves toward lasting coping skills and decision-making strategies. Ann’s style is collaborative and down-to-earth, focused on what helps someone move forward in everyday life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities at the center of each session. The therapist listens closely and shapes sessions around what matters most to the individual, which can help with relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, phobias, and coping with stressful situations because it breaks problems down into steps you can practice between visits.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. This approach can support people dealing with trauma, grief, or overwhelming emotions by offering short exercises to use daily.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice is revisited over time as progress and challenges emerge.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework discussion, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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