Lakeitta Harris offers individuals a safe, warm, and authentic space for growth and self-discovery. Lakeitta works with clients who have experienced depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, difficult life transitions, grief, and stress. Her approach is collaborative, nonjudgmental, encouraging, and rooted in respect for each client’s lived experience.

Lakeitta’s educational and professional training has allowed her to work with people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. She is well-informed in multicultural, social justice, and relational frameworks, and she is dedicated to providing quality service to communities of color as well as people from diverse backgrounds.

Who I Work With

• Individuals navigating challenging life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, or relationship issues
• Clients seeking therapy that affirms intersectionality, LGBTQIA+ identity, multicultural identity, racial identity, sexual identity, and gender identity
• Black and brown communities and clients from diverse backgrounds who want culturally responsive support
• People who want help identifying goals, processing thoughts and feelings, and challenging themselves toward growth
• Clients seeking a warm, personable therapist who uses collaboration, humor, and respect to create a welcoming space

My Approach to Therapy

Lakeitta provides therapy through a client-centered approach and incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, grounding techniques, narrative therapy, strength-based interventions, and trauma-focused therapy. She uses these tools to meet clients where they are and support positive coping, increased self-awareness, and movement toward goals.

Her work is grounded in collaboration and support. She values creating a safe space where clients can feel comfortable enough to explore their experiences while also seeing areas for growth and change. She respects the lived experiences of clients and recognizes how identity, culture, relationships, and systemic context shape mental health and coping.

Lakeitta believes our experiences shape our worldview. At times, these experiences can create challenges that leave people trying to cope with overwhelming stress. Her hope is to help clients minimize that overwhelming feeling and shift toward insight. She is honored to facilitate this shift and be part of clients’ journeys.

What Clients Can Expect

Clients can expect Lakeitta to bring safety, warmth, authenticity, and encouragement into the therapy space. She is personable and caring, and her sense of humor can help create a relaxing and welcoming environment. She treats clients with respect and kindness while encouraging them to meet their goals.

Therapy with Lakeitta may include processing thoughts and feelings, identifying values, practicing coping skills, grounding during stress, strengthening self-awareness, addressing relationship patterns, and exploring how culture and identity influence healing. Her goal is to support clients as they identify and reach their goals in a way that honors who they are.

Areas of Focus

• Affirming therapy in Chicago
• Individuals counseling
• Life transitions, stress, and grief
• Anxiety and depression
• Trauma and trauma-focused therapy
• Relationship issues
• CBT, ACT, DBT, mindfulness, grounding, and narrative therapy
• Multicultural, social justice, and relational frameworks
• Intersectionality, LGBTQIA+, racial identity, sexual identity, and gender identity
• Black and brown communities and diverse backgrounds

Background and Personal Details

Lakeitta is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master of Education background. Her work reflects a strong commitment to multicultural counseling, social justice, relational care, and quality mental health support for communities of color.

Her therapeutic identity is rooted in warmth, openness, affirmation, and collaboration. Clients can expect her to care about their well-being while respecting their story, goals, and pace. Lakeitta’s counseling presence is grounded in the belief that clients deserve to be met with dignity and that therapy can help them move from overwhelm toward insight, coping, and self-discovery. She helps clients connect their experiences to their strengths while honoring culture, identity, relationships, and personal goals.

Closing Invitation

To learn more about affirming therapy with Lakeitta, reach out through Ace Counseling Group or schedule a session when you feel ready.