Lakeisha S. McKnabb, LCMHCS, LCAS, CCS

Lakeisha has been involved with The Center for Family Based Training since 2019 when she took the lead role in making ESFT the primary treatment model for her home agency’s intensive in-home program. She successfully helped shift the program from an individualistic, behavioral focus to a more relational family therapy approach.  She is currently the Director of Field Based Treatment for Support, Inc., a community-based agency in Gastonia, North Carolina, where she continues to have clinical oversight of therapists implementing ESFT.  

Lakeisha has been licensed and practicing professional counseling over the past 16 years following a military career in healthcare and patient administration. She attended graduate school at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Lakeisha is passionate about supervising and mentoring newly licensed therapists within the community. She is also a NC board supervisor for Clinical Mental Health Clinicians as well as Addictions professionals. In addition to ESFT, Lakeisha has experience with a variety of clinical approaches, including crisis response management, brief-solution focused therapy, neurosequential model of therapeutics, and EMDR. Personal delights include attending to her family, traveling, and alternative healing practices such as yoga, meditation, and Reiki.

Robin Armstrong, MSW, LCSW

Robin Armstrong, a licensed social worker, received her MSW from UNC Chapel Hill in 2005. She played a key role in our implementation of ESFT in North Carolina’s intensive in-home services in 2016 at Carolina Outreach. With 18 teams Carolina Outreach is one of the larger intensive in-home programs to utilize ESFT as its main treatment approach. For the last eight years, as Clinical Director of Child Services, Robin oversaw the implementation of ESFT at the agency, providing supervision, ensuring the model is delivered with fidelity, and expanding the model to outpatient services. She was the first in the state to become a certified ESFT supervisor. She is currently teaching in our onboarding series for new therapists in NC’s ESFT intensive in-home programs.

Robin has extensive experience in community-based work, beginning her career working for Durham County Child Protective Services in North Carolina as a foster care social worker. She then moved to Carolina Outreach in 2007 and has had multiple clinical and administrative roles at the agency before her work with ESFT. Robin is trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.  Robin recently left Carolina Outreach in 2024 to pursue private practice focusing on family therapy.