About LaToya
LaToya Stevenson, LCSW, focuses on connection as the starting point for change. She centers sessions on helping people feel seen and heard while they learn ways to manage stress and anxiety. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to build trust quickly so clients can start making practical shifts.
She brings 11 years of experience working in community mental health and social service settings. That work included crisis intervention and conflict resolution in emergency mental health care.
Background and approach
Those experiences inform how she helps people through trauma, grief, sudden life changes, and other intense moments. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
She incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed. LaToya also draws on attachment-focused ideas to improve how people relate to others and to themselves.
Client-centered principles guide sessions so people lead the pace and topics that matter most to them. She often works with concerns like depression, substance issues, parenting stress, relationship strain, LGBT questions, ADHD, eating challenges, anger, and bipolar mood issues. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed.
She helps people build small, manageable skills and practice them between meetings. The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
LaToya often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and repetitive worries because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical exercises.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions toward them even when difficult feelings remain. ACT can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are added when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness are needed to manage intense moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From that conversation they decide, together, which strategies to try first and adjust plans over time.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - video for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging for quick check-ins or notes between meetings. The variety helps people keep momentum and try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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