Dr. Lashanda Baylor

Dr. Lashanda Baylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Mississippi with more than two decades of experience. She brings a practical, goal-oriented style to sessions and focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her work also addresses addiction, trauma, grief, and women's issues.

Dr. Baylor emphasizes straightforward conversations and clear goals. She adapts the pace and tone of sessions to each person's needs. Expect a focus on practical skills and steps to manage overwhelming feelings and impulsive behaviors.

Her background includes 23 years of clinical work and a Doctor of Professional Counseling degree. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and emotion-focused methods to help people change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationships and emotional bonds are central to the work.

In sessions she helps people build coping strategies for ADHD, mood disorders, and substance-related concerns. She also supports those managing grief, parenting stress, self-harm urges, and problems with self-esteem. The emphasis is on real-world tools that can be used between meetings.

Dr. Baylor welcomes straightforward conversations about goals and expectations. She asks about what has and hasn’t worked before, then tailors a plan that fits each person’s situation and rhythm. To begin, readers should confirm current session options and scheduling details before booking.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape feelings and reactions. It can help people who struggle with trust, emotional distance, or repeated relationship hurt understand and change those patterns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small practical experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood concerns to teach skills that reduce distress between sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and move through strong emotions so they can feel less stuck. This approach is helpful when emotions drive reactivity or when processing loss and trauma feels overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, current struggles, and preferences, then recommend methods to try. Clients and the therapist check in over time and adjust the plan together based on what helps.

If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for different check-in styles such as shorter or longer meetings depending on needs. Talk with the therapist about what scheduling and meeting formats will work best for day-to-day life.