About Daronda
Daronda Parker-Lathan is a licensed social worker in Louisiana with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her approach is warm and respectful, and she aims to meet each person where they are.
She focuses on practical conversation and tailored planning. Sessions explore what feels most urgent and what small steps might help. She pays attention to how life events, relationships, and past hurts affect daily functioning.
Background and approach
Daronda adapts the pace to each person. Some people work on coping skills for anxiety or anger. Others look at grief, addictions, or long-term patterns like codependency and attachment concerns.
She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges related to adoption or foster care. Concerns such as body image, intimacy, and sexual orientation are part of her practice as well. Throughout the work she emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
The therapist and client shape the plan together. That means practical goals, checkpoint conversations, and adjustments as needs change.
Therapeutic techniques and online care that fit your life
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical skills and understanding patterns. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping strategies for anxiety, anger, and stress. These techniques teach tools you can use between sessions to reduce overwhelm and manage difficult moments. Another approach looks at past experiences and relationships to understand current reactions. This work can help with trauma, attachment wounds, and repeating patterns in relationships by building awareness and new ways of relating. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That means checking in regularly and adjusting techniques if something isn’t helping. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter option. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use writing when speaking feels hard. Together these options give flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, or travel.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English