About Latoya
Latoya Simmons, LPC, uses practical, skills-based therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She writes short-term, goal-focused plans with clients and focuses on clear, usable strategies rather than jargon. Her style is direct and warm so parents and adults can feel heard and make steady progress.
Latoya brings 20 years of experience in a range of settings. She has worked in homes, schools, and hospitals and has provided group work and emergency consultation.
Background and approach
That background helps her spot practical obstacles and plan realistic steps that fit a family's day-to-day life. Her work often centers on teaching coping skills and problem solving. She uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build habits that work better.
She also uses trauma-focused approaches when past hurt affects current functioning. Latoya supports people facing parenting strain, family conflict, workplace stress, domestic violence, and adolescent challenges. She helps clients practice manageable skills for anger control, mood regulation, and concentration.
Sessions emphasize planning, practice, and checking what actually helps. People meet with her by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging. She guides clients through a simple intake and scheduling process so work can begin without extra hurdles.
Latoya aims to help people build stronger routines and clearer thinking over time.
Practical approaches for online care
Latoya uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful habits; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set short-term goals and find immediate steps that move someone toward what they want; this is helpful when clients need concrete changes quickly. Trauma-Focused Therapy is applied when past hurt affects current behavior, focusing on coping skills and gradual processing to reduce the ways trauma shows up today.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they try one approach and adjust over time based on what is working and what feels manageable for the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing out thoughts helps, and a mix of formats can be scheduled to match needs and routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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