Latechia Hester
Compassionate counselor for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCMHC, LCPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Maine, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Latechia
Latechia Hester is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who uses practical, evidence-based methods to support people facing family and parenting concerns. She draws from 24 years of hands-on experience to help clients manage stress, addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy issues. Her style is straightforward and focused on real-life changes rather than jargon.
She began her career in 2001 working in group homes with at-risk young men and their families.
Background and approach
That early work included family reunification, substance abuse support, LGBTQ issues, and independent living skills. She later worked in substance abuse treatment with DUI and court-mandated clients and served as an interventionist for families dealing with addiction and codependency.
After returning to school for a master’s in Clinical Mental Health, she treated people with mood disorders, PTSD, grief, and co-occurring conditions in an outpatient hospital clinic. She also earned a second master’s in School Counseling and supported students in an inner-city setting with body image, self-harm, ADHD, trauma, and various forms of abuse.
Her main approaches include cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work, paired with a client-centered stance that meets people where they are. She aims to build a trusting relationship and tailor strategies that help families and individuals move toward healthier routines. Latechia describes her work as helping people transform - to heal, grow, and find practical ways to live better.
She emphasizes dignity, respect, and step-by-step progress toward lasting change.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person where they are. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people set goals that feel manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to make changes and strengthens commitment to goals like reducing substance use or improving family interactions.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences during early sessions and suggest a mix of methods that fit the situation. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan together as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue work between appointments. The variety of formats helps families and individuals access care in ways that fit daily life, whether they need real-time conversations or shorter, written check-ins.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Maine, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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