LaDerida Stokes-Roberts, LMHC

LaDerida Stokes-Roberts is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of professional experience. She helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, low self-esteem, career stress, and attention concerns. Her approach centers on listening to each person's story and building on their strengths. She acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and offers steady support for that first step.

LaDerida practices in a straightforward, goal-minded way. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical alternatives. Motivational Interviewing is part of how she helps people find motivation when change feels overwhelming. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term, achievable goals that bring quick relief.

Trauma-Focused Therapy informs how she approaches painful past events. She works with pacing and personal preferences, and focuses on what the person can handle in the moment. She aims to make sessions understandable and useful rather than full of jargon.

Her background includes many years helping people with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and family or workplace conflicts. She also supports those facing impulsivity, fatherhood concerns, intellectual disability, and women’s issues.

Sessions are offered in English and LaDerida accepts clients from outside the United States. If you are ready to begin, she invites you to take the next step and arrange a first appointment.

How these approaches work in online therapy

LaDerida commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and attention struggles. She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address painful memories in a paced, supportive way that respects a person’s limits and comfort.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then suggest methods to try. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits the person’s life.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule and reduce travel time. It also allows work with licensed professionals from different locations, including international clients. Because the exact session options are not listed here, confirm current formats before booking so you know what is offered. The focus is on practical steps that fit day-to-day life, like shorter check-ins around work breaks or focused sessions for processing grief and trauma.