Trishka Lampkin, LMFT

Trishka Lampkin is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and the effects of trauma. Her work also covers relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and self-esteem struggles. She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Trishka uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps forward. Her style is collaborative and respectful. Sessions include listening, gentle challenge, and simple skill-building exercises. She pays attention to cultural context and identity, and she is comfortable supporting LGBT clients and people facing intersectional stressors. Trishka often helps people work through major life changes, parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic health impacts, and work-related burnout. She also addresses concerns like ADHD, body image, eating and sleeping problems, and commitment or codependency issues. Practical coping skills, improved emotional awareness, and clearer personal goals are common focuses in her work. She encourages small, achievable changes that fit daily life. The aim is steady progress rather than instant fixes.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions to change feelings and behavior. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and stress management.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action. This approach can be useful for people facing grief, chronic health issues, or motivation challenges.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people form healthier ways of connecting and relating to others. It can be helpful for intimacy concerns, commitment issues, and attachment-related wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily life, then recommend tools and methods that fit. That collaboration makes it easier to adjust techniques over time if something is not working.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and worksheets, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets clients share thoughts between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life transitions.