About Latoya
Latoya Simmons is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She offers straightforward, practical support and focuses on building coping skills that can be used between sessions. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
She has worked in a range of settings, including in-home therapy and school-based counseling, and has experience as a youth advocate and group therapist.
Background and approach
That variety shaped a flexible approach to different problems, from parenting challenges to workplace stress. The goal is to identify clear steps clients can take to feel steadier day to day. Simmons uses methods drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to tackle unhelpful thoughts and set achievable goals.
She also applies Trauma-Focused Therapy principles when past or recent trauma is affecting daily functioning. Sessions tend to be practical, focused on problem solving and learning coping strategies that fit a client's life. Her background includes work with domestic violence situations, emergency consultations, and programs aimed at reducing suicide across South Carolina.
Those roles informed her skills in crisis response, safety planning, and short-term intervention when needed. She emphasizes respect, patience, and realistic planning. People seeking help for grief, anger, ADHD, self-esteem, or family and parenting stresses will find a pragmatic, calm clinician who prioritizes clear communication.
Latoya welcomes questions and will work with each person to create a manageable plan for change.
Approach-focused online care that fits your life
Latoya uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes simple exercises and homework that reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress by changing daily habits and thinking patterns.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and find what already works. This approach narrows the focus to practical steps and small changes that produce visible progress, which can help with parenting challenges, workplace stress, and day-to-day struggles.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that match those priorities. If one approach needs adjustment, they work together to refine the plan so it feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messages can support short updates or reminders. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English