Latoya Simmons, LPC

Latoya Simmons is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 20 years of clinical work. She helps people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, depression, family and parenting concerns, self-esteem issues, and ADHD. She also focuses on domestic violence and workplace problems.

She has worked in many settings including in-home therapy and school-based counseling. Her background also includes roles as a youth advocate, group therapist for people who batter, and as a consultant to emergency room doctors. She has delivered suicide prevention training as a Gate Keeper Trainer across the state.

Her approach draws on practical, evidence-based methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques and solution-focused work to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. She also uses trauma-focused methods when past events are central to what someone is facing now.

In sessions she helps people break big problems into manageable steps. She works on problem solving and building coping skills for emotional and behavioral concerns. That can mean focusing on a few concrete strategies a person can practice between meetings.

Her practice supports individual clients who want structured help for day-to-day functioning and reactions to difficult events. To begin, she asks people to describe their main concerns and short-term goals so sessions can focus on practical change.

How her CBT and trauma methods translate to online work