Wellness grows through the village around you.

A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with a Master's degree in Counseling, LaTonya has over 20 years of experience in providing behavioral health services in schools and in the community.

This experience includes serving as the Outpatient Services Coordinator for a community-based mental health center providing crisis intervention and stabilization services, post psychiatric hospitalization transition and linkage support, individual and group therapy, diagnostic assessment, and daily clinical and performance supervision to a multi-disciplinary team.

Most recently serving as the family support counselor and Director of Family and Community Engagement for a local school network, she works with school leadership, staff, and parents to design, implement, and support school practices and programs that promote a healthy social and emotional learning environment.

She further serves as a lead on the network's crisis team, provides professional development to school staff related to cultural competency, resiliency, parent engagement, and trauma, and serves as a Field Instructor for graduate level interns for the University of Chicago's Crown Family School of Social Work.