Alesha Perkins, LCSW

Alesha Perkins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges such as parenting, grief, and addictions. Her style is down-to-earth and nonjudgmental. She aims to help people take practical steps toward the goals they set for themselves.

Alesha uses straightforward talk and collaborative planning to help clients change unhelpful patterns. She listens first, then helps identify small, doable steps that fit a person’s life. Sessions emphasize clear goals, simple tools, and steady progress rather than jargon or complex theories.

Her work blends cognitive behavioral approaches with client-centered and solution-focused ideas. That means she helps people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, offers supportive listening, and looks for practical ways to move forward. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when someone wants help with change but feels unsure or stuck.

Alesha has experience across different practice settings and with a range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, career stress, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions. She encourages people to keep control of their decisions and to build skills they can use outside sessions. The tone in her practice is warm, authentic, and goal-oriented.

People who prefer clear plans, gentle challenge, and steady progress tend to find her approach helpful. She focuses on what matters now and helps clients develop tools to manage daily life and longer-term changes.

How Alesha’s Approaches Work Online

Alesha commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify thoughts that affect feelings and behavior, then practice new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for problems like anxiety, depression, and stress because it focuses on concrete skills and short-term changes.

She also works from a client-centered stance, which means she prioritizes listening and understanding each person’s experience. That approach helps people feel heard and gives room to set goals that matter to them. Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels uncertain about change; it helps clarify personal reasons for change and builds commitment in small steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alesha will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then recommend and try methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills aloud. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief updates, quick coaching, or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity across life changes.