About Latoya
Latoya Love is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage trauma, stress, and day-to-day mental health needs. She uses clear, practical methods to help clients build stronger self-care habits and handle challenging emotions. Latoya blends solution-focused work with a strengths-based view so people leave sessions with doable steps.
She has 11 years as an LPC and over a decade working in mental health settings. That experience includes supporting people through depression, anxiety, grief, and the lasting effects of abuse and sexual assault.
Background and approach
Latoya also helps people facing compassion fatigue, parenting strains, and struggles with self-esteem or body image. Her approach is trauma-focused while honoring each person’s inner resources. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space and uses Solution-Focused techniques to set short-term goals.
Internal Family Systems ideas inform work around parts, self-love, and healing from shame or guilt. Latoya takes a whole-person view that links emotional health to daily life. She pays attention to cultural and multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care.
People often come to her for coaching around life purpose, managing ADHD, or coping with chronic illness and pain. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Latoya aims to help people make steady progress with simple, concrete strategies and collaborative planning.
Using trauma-informed and solution-focused care online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel understood, which supports work on self-esteem, grief, and cultural stressors. Sessions center on the person's experience and priorities. Solution-Focused Therapy targets small, practical steps to change; it helps when someone wants concrete strategies for stress, anger, or parenting challenges. Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to the impact of past harm and uses paced, stabilizing methods to address post-traumatic stress and sexual assault recovery.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will adjust techniques over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversations and body language cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English