LaTresa Hart, LCSW - Therapist in Indiana

About LaTresa

LaTresa Hart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in social services. She brings a warm, engaging, and interactive style to sessions. Parents and adults often find her direct but compassionate manner easy to talk with.

She focuses on practical steps that fit into busy family life. Hart draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. She uses these methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and anger.

Background and approach

She also works with issues around relationships, parenting, addiction, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem. Her background includes work with families and with people navigating adoption and foster care challenges. In sessions she looks for strengths to build on.

Conversations often include setting small goals, trying new coping skills, and checking progress each week. She adapts tools to fit each household or schedule so strategies are realistic and repeatable. Hart practices in Indiana and holds an LCSW, license number IN LCSW 34008929A.

She provides care in English. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping clients make clear changes over time. She encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers a collaborative, respectful working relationship.

Meetings are tailored to the goals each person brings, with attention to real-life barriers and supports.

Evidence-informed approaches for online family and parenting support

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replacing them with more helpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and mood concerns because it breaks challenges into clear steps to practice.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. These skills can help parents and individuals manage stress and stay calmer during difficult moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and daily life. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, and family obligations and to use tools between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide skill practice, set achievable goals, and check progress without requiring travel, which helps keep changes realistic for busy households.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she work with?

She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and relationship problems, trauma and abuse, addictions, and self-esteem challenges.

What is her therapy style like?

The style is warm, engaging, and interactive, with an emphasis on strengths and practical steps like goal setting and skill practice.

How long has she practiced?

LaTresa Hart has two decades of experience in social services and clinical work supporting people and families through various life challenges.

What credentials and location apply?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, IN LCSW 34008929A, and practices in Indiana.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients.

What session formats are offered?

Sessions can take place as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are fees handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 20 years
Licensed: Indiana
Languages: English

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