About LaToshia
LaToshia Spearing is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and life changes. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at building useful skills and clearer thinking so daily life feels more manageable.
She has 21 years of experience in mental health, including many years in independent practice. LaToshia uses a range of approaches to meet each person’s needs.
How LaToshia works
She draws on client-centered work to make sessions collaborative and grounded in what matters to the individual. She also integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns of thinking and change unhelpful responses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are used with people coping with strong emotions and relationship strain.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or needs support finding momentum. LaToshia has supported people facing trauma and abuse, parenting stresses, adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment and attachment issues, and challenges like bipolar disorder, ADHD, and substance-related behaviors. She addresses practical problems such as communication breakdowns, anger, infidelity, divorce and separation, and caregiving strain.
Sessions focus on clear goals, skill building, and steady progress. She invites people to set small, realistic steps and offers guidance on managing emotions, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence.
LaToshia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What LaToshia works with
The areas below are the ones LaToshia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work places the person’s goals and values at the center of sessions, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and guiding collaboration to set meaningful steps. This approach helps people clarify priorities and feel heard during remote conversations.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. Online CBT often uses short skill practices between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies clear tools for regulating strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Teaching DBT skills over video or phone can help people practice distress tolerance, mindfulness, and communication techniques in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Clients and the therapist make adjustments as needed so the method fits the person's pace and needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily commitments.
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