About Daronda
Daronda Parker-Lathan is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and wants to make counseling feel practical and respectful. She listens and adapts conversations to each person.
Sessions aim to identify immediate concerns and small steps that can reduce daily pressure. The tone is supportive and direct, with attention to what feels doable for the client.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience addressing trauma and abuse, depression, and addiction-related issues. She also works with concerns around grief, intimacy, self-esteem, and relationship strain. That experience shapes how she notices patterns and offers concrete options for change.
Parker-Lathan also addresses a wide range of related struggles such as parenting stress, caregiver fatigue, ADHD, and challenges tied to adoption, attachment, or blended family dynamics. She brings practical strategies for coping with chronic illness, grief after loss, and life transitions. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process.
She helps set goals, tracks progress, and adjusts plans as needs shift. The overall focus is on helping clients move toward more manageable days and clearer choices.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Many of the approaches she uses focus on practical skills and understanding patterns. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing alternative responses to reduce anxiety and stress; this helps with daily coping and mood challenges. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and abuse at a pace the person can tolerate, using grounding and stabilization techniques to build tolerance for difficult memories.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. Together they pick tools and steps that fit the client's life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, mood tracking, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use approaches that rely on coached practice and regular contact.
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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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