LCSW-C, 7 years of experience
**Hello there! My name is Alexis Staton, LCSW-C.** I am a first-generation graduate and postgraduate African American cisgender female dedicated to breaking generational cycles. My own life experiences have drawn me to this field, and I understand that doing the work on oneself is a significant and challenging task. I hold both a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a Master of Social Work with a focus on Urban Child Welfare and Families from Morgan State University. As an interventionist, I strive to connect authentically with my clients, empowering them to embrace all their experiences, which ultimately shape who they are and how they "show up in the world." As a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) mental health therapist, I bring almost a decade of clinical experience to my practice. I have provided both intensive and outpatient treatment, helping clients overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma through various treatment modalities designed to promote optimum functionality. My work often included participating on interdisciplinary teams, maintaining ongoing collaboration with primary care providers, psychiatrists, and public school IEP teams, among others. This holistic approach ensures comprehensive care and supports the diverse needs of my clients. My goal is to facilitate healing and growth, helping individuals achieve their best possible mental health and well-being.
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive right into the specific challenges you're facing/ would like to focus on during this therapeutic jounry. This will help me create an individualized plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
My greatest strength as a provided is my ability to create a safe and empathetic environment where clients feel truly heard and understood. this allows for a genuine connection and trust, which are essential for effective therapeutic progress and healing.
I am best positioned to serve individuals with complex trauma, including thoses who have experienced poverty, sexual abuse, and neglect. Additionally, I have specialized in treating adolescent victims of sexual exploitation, mood disorders, depression, suicidal ideations, and anxiety.
5 ratings with written reviews
June 26, 2025
In meeting Lex, she is very personable. It feels good to speak with someone who shares some of the same sentiments, and struggles as I do but to help me find solutions on how to navigate these things. While being funny and relatable, she also reinforces solutions based thought processes. She invokes deep conversation without probing and making it feel unsafe. This space has become a safe place to share my true feelings and also to receive “therapy”. This has been a gem so far.
May 6, 2025
Ms.Staton has done wonders to my mental health. She has to push boundaries that even had my parents apologizing and I feel like they really mean it. My journey been so beneficial to me my mother even started therapy.
March 31, 2025
Alexis is very warm and opening and very patient. She asked me a lot of questions in regards to how I want to be better while using this therapy approach and she shared what we will be doing in the next therapy sessions and what to expect and I look forward to our next meeting.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a structured therapeutic approach that combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness strategies to treat individuals struggling with depression, suicidal ideations, and self-injurious behaviors.
Strength-based therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on identifying and leveraging a client's inherent strengths and resources to address psychological challenges. This positive psychology perspective contrasts with traditional models that focus primarily on deficits and problems. While using strength based therapy, I have been able to support my clients with decreasing cognitive distortions, improve self-esteem, and empower self-efficacy among other things.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a specialized form of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help children, adolescents, and their caregivers overcome the effects of traumatic experiences, such as childhood sexual abuse.