- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Self esteem
- Focus
- Depression
About Latoya
Latoya Love is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She brings 11 years as an LPC to conversations about stress, parenting concerns, trauma, and everyday mental health struggles. She writes as a wife and mother who cares about helping people make small, steady changes that add up over time.
Her work focuses on practical steps and a strengths-based view. She uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to help people set realistic goals and try new approaches between sessions.
Background and approach
She also uses trauma-focused strategies when past hurt affects daily life. Latoya approaches mental health from a whole-person perspective. She pays attention to how life roles, cultural background, and physical health affect wellbeing.
This includes attention to issues such as grief, compassion fatigue, self-esteem, and identity concerns tied to multicultural experiences. She helps people with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, anger, parenting, ADHD, and relationship stress linked to family life.
Additional areas she supports include adoption and foster care questions, body image, chronic illness, immigration-related stress, and recovery after sexual assault or abuse. Latoya draws on plain language and practical tools in sessions. She aims to make mental health feel approachable and manageable.
People who want step-by-step planning, gentle accountability, and affirmation of their strengths may find her style helpful.
What Latoya works with
Everything Latoya lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Latoya helps people with.
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Approaches Latoya lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Latoya uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on each person's experience and priorities. This approach means the therapist listens closely, follows the client's lead on goals, and adjusts tools to what feels most useful. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to find their own next steps.She also uses solution-focused methods that zero in on small, practical changes. Those sessions often involve setting short-term goals and trying concrete strategies between meetings. This work is helpful for people who want quick wins and clear plans for parenting, stress, or day-to-day struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and comfort. Choices can change over time as issues evolve or progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, and busy days while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
Questions people ask about Latoya
What concerns does Latoya commonly address?
She works with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, stress, grief, anger, and self-esteem issues. Parenting, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life-purpose questions are also part of her focus.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is client-centered and solution-focused, with a trauma-focused lens when needed. Sessions emphasize strengths, goal-setting, and practical steps between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Latoya has been a licensed professional counselor for 11 years and has worked in mental health for longer than that.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time and works with clients located where she is licensed.
What session formats does she use?
Latoya offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
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