Danesha Simmons, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and founder of Dream Identity Counseling, located in the State of Florida. Her passion is to serve Healthcare workers, minorities and striving youth and adults of the community as they learn how to break ineffective generational family cycles, remove unhealthy norms and follow their dreams despite their past and current experiences. Danesha's approach for individuals, families, and the community is to promote holistic wellness. She connects the ability to incorporate integrative psycho-educational modalities, practices of mindfulness, and expressive art therapy techniques to help you grow from a life of carrying those heavy feelings inside to effective coping. She works with her client's to help them learn effective skills to get off their routine “go-mode” of life and promote balance and stress release. As a National Certified Counselor, Danesha holds value in collaborating with community partners to promote social change. As a Certified Trauma Professional, she believes that the individual is a part of a greater system and each shares a role for cohesion and support. As a wellness consultant, she takes a deeper view into how each work employee contributes to personal and workplace wellness.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
PLEASE SCHEDULE A CONSULTATION CALL FIRST. Intake sessions will be cancelled without having an initial consultation with the therapist. The therapist will contact you via phone for a 15 min consultation call.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
Danesha helps her clients identify strengths through a holistic, creative and empowering approach. As a Certified Family Trauma Professional and Wellness Consultant, she believes that the work of the individual creates a greater system. Danesha uses psycho-education, talk therapy, mindfulness tools, and expressive art therapy techniques to help you cultivate your "Dream Identity." She works with her clients to help them find effective solutions to get off their routine “go-mode” of life to promote balance and self-awareness to grow. She understands different ways of learning styles and processing, such as using visuals and handouts for visual learners to help them navigate long-term change.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Danesha's strength area is to assist clients in navigating grief and life transitions as they empower themselves through their journeys to authentic healing. She also teaches thought reframing and self-talk strategies or coping with negative moods and self-esteem. Danesha uses psycho-education to teach the impact of thought processing affecting daily emotions and behaviors in simplistic and down-to-earth terms.