About Toni
Toni Willis is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in North Carolina. She holds LMHC and LCMHC credentials and brings 13 years of clinical experience to her work. Toni speaks English and sees clients both in the U.S. and internationally via online formats.
She focuses on practical steps that help people feel steadier and more capable sooner. Toni aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can talk about what matters most.
How Toni works
She uses clear, down-to-earth language and listens for values, strengths, and small changes that make a difference. Her style is compassionate and engaging, and she encourages clients to take the lead on goals that matter to them. In sessions she blends client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches.
That means Toni helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try small behavioral experiments, and learn skills for handling strong emotions. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support sustained change. People come to her for a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, career questions, grief, trauma and addictions.
She also works with issues like intimacy, anger, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric concerns, body image, cancer-related distress, and communication problems. Toni will work collaboratively to set clear, realistic goals and track progress.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Toni lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Toni works with
The areas below are the ones Toni selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Toni's approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, highlights their strengths, and helps clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple experiments to test new patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can be useful for strong mood swings and intense emotions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Toni will work together with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and daily life. Sessions can shift over time so the plan stays helpful and realistic for what a person wants to achieve.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and run structured sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and written notes people can reread. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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