About LaTonya
LaTonya Mangum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on everyday difficulties like feeling isolated, coping with guilt, and dealing with family conflict. Her approach is practical and respectful, with straightforward conversation and clear goals.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support people in clarifying values and taking small steps toward a more meaningful life. Attachment-based ideas shape how she looks at relationship patterns and long-standing hurts. Sessions are collaborative.
LaTonya listens first, then tailors a plan to each person’s needs. She balances problem-solving skills with space to process emotions. The work often includes practicing new skills between meetings.
Clients can expect gentle directness and steady support. LaTonya emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping people build confidence and motivation. She frames change as a series of doable steps rather than a single leap.
With eleven years of experience, LaTonya brings practical clinical experience to common life struggles. She works with concerns such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, control issues, and the emotional fallout from separation and infidelity. Her sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve everyday functioning.
She helps people tackle impulsivity, shame, emptiness, jealousy, and the effects of difficult family histories through clear, supportive work tailored to each person.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck because it focuses on action rather than getting rid of every uncomfortable feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical for managing anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into small, manageable parts.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and closeness. This approach can help with codependency, abandonment concerns, and repeating negative relationship cycles.
Finding the right approach is often a process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they may try different strategies and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a short check-in between meetings, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try approaches that suit how a person prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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