About Daronda
Daronda Parker-Lathan is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She listens without judgment and helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or trauma. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, focused on next steps rather than jargon.
She works with adults facing relationship strain, grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to ADHD. Sessions are tailored to each person's situation, with clear goals and doable strategies.
Background and approach
Daronda adapts the pace and focus to match what feels most helpful to the individual. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in Louisiana, where she has supported people through life changes, parenting stress, and complex emotional issues. She blends real-world problem solving with empathetic listening.
That mix helps clients build skills and notice progress between sessions. In the first meetings she clarifies goals and discusses what a helpful plan looks like. People can expect straightforward conversation, practical coping techniques, and a focus on strengths.
The work is collaborative - she guides and the client directs where the work goes. Daronda aims to create a steady, respectful space for change. Whether someone is coping with anxiety, managing mood swings, navigating family tensions, or exploring intimacy concerns, she offers steady support and an emphasis on usable tools.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on concrete skills and clear steps. One common approach emphasizes structured problem solving and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines; this helps with stress, ADHD-related challenges, and depression by breaking problems into manageable tasks. Another approach centers on trauma-informed listening and pacing, creating space to process difficult memories while teaching grounding and emotional regulation skills that reduce distress in day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they test methods, adjust plans, and pick techniques that fit the client’s pace and priorities rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers flexible options to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can serve as a short check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep momentum, try strategies in real life, and stay connected when in-person visits are hard to arrange.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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