About Lamar
Lamar Sykes uses a relationship-focused, practical approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who draws on conversational, goal-oriented work to help clients make changes that matter day to day.
Background and approach
He aims for clear, direct conversations in sessions. Lamar listens for patterns in how people relate and make choices, then helps them try small, manageable experiments to shift those patterns.
He often blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to address unhelpful thoughts and difficult emotions. His practice covers a broad range of concerns including depression, anger, addiction, trauma and grief, career pressure, and intimacy-related problems.
He also focuses on parenting stress, communication problems, codependency, and issues that can follow divorce or separation. First responder issues and men’s issues are included among his additional focus areas.
Lamar has 14 years of clinical experience and has worked in school-based settings and independent practice. He combines that background with methods like the Gottman Method for couples work and motivational interviewing when people are weighing change.
Sessions are conversational and aim to be practical and relevant to daily life. He lives in Indiana with his family and offers services in English.
People interested in scheduling begin by using the platform’s matching flow to choose a therapist, complete a short questionnaire, and pick a time for sessions.
Therapeutic Approaches Applied to Online Care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead. The therapist focuses on building a respectful relationship and helping clients name what matters most to them, which is useful for stress, family conflict, and self-esteem work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and develop new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
The therapist treats finding the right method as a team effort. He will discuss goals, try approaches, and adjust plans based on what fits the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape whether more CBT, mindfulness practices, Gottman-informed techniques, or motivational interviewing will be emphasized.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and text-based messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English