About Latonia
Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 18 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, ADHD, and related challenges. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she focuses on listening first and then building tools that fit each person’s life.
She has worked in independent practice, telehealth, and school-based settings. That variety shapes how she approaches problems - simple, usable strategies that can be practiced between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase insight, reduce distress, and develop coping skills that feel doable. Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She mixes methods such as cognitive approaches, skills training, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to match each person’s needs.
The result is a tailored plan rather than a one-size-fits-all program. Latonia has helped people manage panic, social anxiety, depressive episodes, bipolar symptoms, and post-traumatic stress, among other concerns. She also supports those dealing with communication problems, impulsivity, isolation, and challenges tied to neurodiversity or intellectual disability.
Therapy with her emphasizes practical change. Clients learn strategies to handle strong emotions, improve daily functioning, and make decisions with more confidence. She encourages steady progress and clear goals.
Based in Michigan, she delivers services in English through a range of online formats. Her practice centers on respect, cultural responsiveness, and working together to find what helps most.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Latonia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and clear goals. Cognitive approaches help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns that can fuel anxiety and depression, and then practice alternative ways of responding. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase emotional regulation during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will work collaboratively to identify which techniques fit a person’s needs, goals, and lifestyle, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients have a say in pacing, homework, and which tools they want to try first.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging support ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real time where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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