About Delishia
Delishia Williams is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 15 years of clinical experience. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style to help people carrying heavy stress, grief, or anxiety find steadier footing. Her aim is to listen, reflect, and help clients notice what is working so they can move forward with less overwhelm.
She blends client-centered work with practical cognitive behavioral strategies. That means sessions often focus on real-life patterns, small behavior changes, and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness skills to help people calm racing thoughts and reconnect with the present moment. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Howard University with a focus on aging and gerontology. Delishia spent nearly seven years working in hospice care, supporting people through intense life transitions and helping caregivers and staff manage grief and burnout.
Those experiences shaped her interest in meaning, loss, and resilience. She assists people dealing with depression, bipolar concerns, addiction, relationship and family stress, parenting strain, sleep problems, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people facing abandonment, body image and self-worth struggles, caregiver stress, and end-of-life issues.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Clients can expect a steady, nonjudgmental presence, concrete tools to try between sessions, and collaborative planning for next steps. Delishia practices in Iowa and works in English only.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Delishia commonly uses client-centered therapy, which centers on the person's own goals and experiences and offers a respectful, listening-based space to work through concerns. This approach helps people feel heard while they decide what changes matter most.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with workable alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and the daily patterns that make life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then blend methods in a collaborative way. Clients take an active role in choosing techniques to try between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement matters, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to use different formats for different needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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