LaShana Poole, LPC, LCMHC

LaShana Poole is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, relationship strain, family challenges, and grief. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She invites clients to tell their story and to use their strengths as the work begins.

LaShana treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and structure. She focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions. Conversations are aimed at reducing overwhelm and building clearer coping choices. Her background includes supporting people through mood concerns, co-morbidity, codependency, impulsivity, and post-traumatic stress.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior, Trauma-Focused Therapy to address past hurts, and Existential Therapy to work on meaning and values. These methods are used in simple, easy-to-follow ways. Sessions emphasize what will feel useful to you right now.

LaShana also pays attention to multicultural concerns, women’s issues, self-love, commitment questions, and challenges common in young adulthood and midlife. She aims to help people find clearer direction and calmer days. To begin, she asks clients to identify goals and then builds a plan that fits day-to-day life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for building new coping habits.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on safely processing and reducing the hold of past traumatic events. It aims to lessen symptoms related to trauma and to improve daily functioning.

Existential Therapy looks at meaning, values, and choices when people feel stuck or face big life questions. It can help with commitment issues, midlife concerns, and finding direction after loss.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. This is a shared process that can change as progress is made.

Specific session formats were not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow quicker check-ins during a lunch break, or let someone use a phone call when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.