- Client-centered approach
- Goal-focused steps
- Warm interactive style
About Ladonna
Ladonna Williams is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a client-centered way of working. She brings 20 years of practice in Florida and aims to create an open space where people feel heard and respected. Her style is warm, interactive, and compassionate, and she emphasizes practical steps people can use outside sessions.
With a background in cognitive behavioral, solution-focused, and humanistic approaches, she helps people notice patterns and try small changes. That can include shifting unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviors, and building clearer goals. Sessions are designed around what matters most to the individual rather than a fixed agenda.
Her experience spans a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, mood disorders, and bipolar challenges. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, blended family matters, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress. She works with concerns around addiction, anger, sleep, career strain, and compassion fatigue as well.
Ladonna also supports people facing identity and life-stage questions, including LGBT issues, women’s issues, isolation and midlife transitions. First responder issues and challenges tied to parenting or blended families are among her focus areas. She encourages skills that help people manage everyday demands while keeping sight of longer term goals.
Sessions are provided in English and are based in Florida. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person to the next step and scheduling follows the therapist’s availability.
How different approaches guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It emphasizes understanding the person's perspective and building a respectful, supportive relationship that helps them set their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It offers practical tools to test unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and measure progress, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than imposing a single way of working.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking since they are not listed in the biography. Online options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people join from a place that reduces travel time. A collaborative planning conversation will clarify how sessions will be structured, what to expect, and how to make therapy fit daily routines.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does this therapist address?
Areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, mood disorders including bipolar, and issues such as addiction, sleep problems, and career stress.
How would sessions feel in terms of approach and style?
The therapist uses a client-centered stance paired with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques, and describes her style as warm, interactive, respectful, and compassionate.
What is her professional background and experience?
She holds a Florida LMHC license and has practiced for 20 years, working with adults from many walks of life including first responders and college students.
Where is the therapist based and what credentials are listed?
She is based in Florida and is licensed as an LMHC in Florida.
Are sessions available in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm the current session formats before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are used.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started if I want to work with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.