Simone Totoro
Practical therapy for parents and families
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Simone
Simone Totoro uses a practical, client-centered approach to help families and parents manage day-to-day challenges. She blends talk therapy with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to teach skills you can use at home. Simone has two decades of experience in mental health and holds LPC and LMHC credentials.
Simone focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She also addresses family conflict, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, career transitions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional attention is given to abandonment, blended family issues, isolation and questions of life purpose. Her style is straightforward and goal-focused. She uses solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing to help people set clear next steps.
Cognitive behavioral tools are used to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while mindfulness practices help manage strong emotions and improve sleep. Simone brings practical experience from twenty years in the field. Her work has included helping adults and older adults navigate mood concerns, trauma reactions, and adjustment difficulties.
She keeps learning through continuing education and training in telehealth and mindfulness. Sessions are oriented toward small, manageable goals and steady progress. Simone often pairs talking with exercises and homework that fit family routines.
The aim is to build skills that make daily life feel more manageable and reduce conflict at home.
Approach-driven online therapy for family and parenting issues
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your priorities, then shaping sessions around what matters most to you. It helps people feel heard and guide decisions about parenting or family goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns and includes practical exercises you can practice between sessions.
Mindfulness teaches simple ways to notice and sit with strong feelings without reacting immediately. These practices can reduce reactivity at home and improve sleep over time.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Simone will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That process can include trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This variety makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to use approaches like CBT and mindfulness in real time. The goal is to make practical tools accessible and adaptable to your home routine.
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
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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