LaToya is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has spent the last ten years utilizing a multisystemic approach to strengthen the family dynamic through individual, couple, and family counseling. LaToya thrives on supporting the cognitive and attachment development of children, adolescents, and transitional age youth, and on developing sustainable family structuring, through implementing practical intervention, that can be emulated in any client’s everyday communication and living. LaToya completed a dual enrollment program at the University of Florida, and graduated with a Masters of Education Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and an Education Specialist Degree in Pediatric Mental Health. ***Unfortunately, I am no longer taking child/adolescent clients for telehealth appointments at this time.***
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
***Unfortunately, I am no longer taking child/adolescent clients for telehealth appointments at this time.*** Through individualized intervention, cultural awareness and research, and unconditional positive regard, I implement healthy relationship building with each one of my clients first. As a result, trust is established and influences barrier confrontation, behavior modification, and transferable skills reinforcement. This approach has further proven to strengthen systemic alliances with my clients, their external relationships, and their behavioral choices within their psychosocial systems.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
From building autonomy through play therapy with your toddler, to identifying and implementing coping skills to combat the inevitable stressors (grief) and stages that we simply can not dodge in life, I level with you and we grow together whether through an individual, pediatric, couple, or family modality. ***Unfortunately, I am no longer taking child/adolescent clients for telehealth appointments at this time.***
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am innovative, co-operative, adaptable, and efficient. I pride myself in creating individual therapeutic journeys curtailed specifically to the need and learning preferences of each of my clients. In most cases, at this point in my career, no presenting problem is new to me; however, one's own solipsism, can make the territory for both myself and my client, unmarked. This is what I love about being a therapist. The goal is never to expert but to rather forever strengthen being present and relevant to the client in front of me. I get this and this is my mission. Embracing and living by his reality alone is my biggest strength. ***Unfortunately, I am no longer taking child/adolescent clients for telehealth appointments at this time.***