I am licensed in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri with 8 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, & coping with grief and loss. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. I will tailor our dialog and treatment plan to meet your unique and specific needs. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Chronic Pain Illness and Disability, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Control Issues, Divorce and Separation, Emptiness, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and Shame, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Impulsivity, Life Purpose, Midlife Crisis, Money and Financial Issues, Multicultural Concerns, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Post-traumatic Stress, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Prejudice and Discrimination, Self-Love, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues
MO LCSW 2022036998
TN LCSW 7481
TX LCSW 67673
AR LCSW 7670-C
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She is wonderful, super understanding, and helpful!
Written on Dec 04, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, and anger management
She’s great and very supportive. She also hold you accountable which I am always looking for. While I want to be validated I am open to correction and other ways to think of things. I highly recommend her.
Written on Oct 23, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem
LaJoya is so smart and helpful. She listens and always checks on me
Written on Oct 23, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 3 months on issues concerning depression, and stress, anxiety
10/10! I absolutely love LaJoya and I’m so thankful for her!
Written on Oct 23, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, and self esteem
LaJoya doesn’t only help you, she helps you remember who you are and how important you are. She can give situations to make you really challenge yourself to help remember that you are worthy and in control. She is very kind, understanding, and smart. And if you don’t understand a Simple question that she asks, she always tries and tries again to reword it in a way that you understand how to respond to it. I highly recommend her. I 100% felt comfortable with her ever since the first time we had a video call. I was nervous and scared and didn’t know how to tell my life story, and she made a point that I didn’t have to explain absolutely everything if it was uncomfortable. I got to actually talk about what was bothering me now, and if I talked about the past and got uncomfortable she immediately recognized that and helped change the subject to where I could be comfortable again. I honestly would recommend her to anyone dealing with trauma, boundary issues, relationship issues, abandonment issues, fear of failure or a fear to be yourself. She is so very helpful and I am so glad that I had came across a therapist like her
Written on Sep 18, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, anger management, bipolar disorder, and adhd
LaJoya has shown compassion towards me as I share my deepest regrets. She is caring towards me and offers advice without adding guilt.
Written on Aug 07, 2023 after therapy with LaJoya for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd