About Soleil
Soleil Totchum is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She communicates in English, Spanish, and French to support a range of cultural backgrounds. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than theory.
Soleil focuses on everyday problems like communication breakdowns, family conflicts, and feelings of emptiness. She also works with concerns linked to adoption and foster care, attachment wounds, and blended family dynamics.
Background and approach
Clients can expect short-term goal setting alongside work on long-standing patterns. Her work often addresses specific life stressors such as caregiver strain, fertility and fertility-related emotions, and the emotional fallout of divorce and separation. Body image, codependency, and dependent personality patterns are also within her focus areas.
Soleil uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. With six years of clinical experience and an LPC license, Soleil draws on an intersectional view of identity in session. That perspective helps when family history, cultural expectations, or past abandonment shape current problems.
She centers practical tools alongside space to process painful memories. People meet Soleil for coaching-style guidance as well as counseling. Sessions often include communication exercises, boundary setting, and strategies to manage low mood.
The aim is clearer relationships, firmer self-regard, and steady progress toward personal goals.
Approaches and how online sessions fit your life
Many people find cognitive-behavioral ideas useful for addressing low mood and self-esteem. This approach breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and teaches small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. It is practical for depression, body image concerns, and daily motivation issues.Attachment-focused work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns like fear of abandonment, dependent behavior, and repeated relationship conflicts. That kind of work can make communication clearer and reduce reactive responses in close relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Soleil will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether short-term coaching, skills-based work, or deeper attachment work is the best path forward.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet when life is busy. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and coaching more convenient. These options help people keep therapy consistent while juggling family, work, or medical appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French