Dr. Latasha McIlwaine

Dr. Latasha McIlwaine is an LPC with 18 years of experience and practices in North Carolina. She helps people facing addictions, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career doubts, depression, and questions about life purpose. She has worked across North and South Carolina and Georgia and brings practical experience from clinical practice and teaching. Her approach mixes clear, goal-focused methods with attention to emotions and behavior. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to examine unhelpful thinking and change actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness exercises appear when managing intense feelings and improving moment-to-moment coping. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set small, achievable goals and track progress. These methods are used in straightforward sessions where the focus is on what the person wants to do next. Dr. McIlwaine has worked as a clinician and educator, teaching undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students who are training to become therapists. She is an author and has written about her own experiences with mental health and recovery in Fragile Brokenness: The Unspoken Secrets That Shaped A Pretty Unprotected Girl Into A Practicing Clinician And Therapist. Her background includes experience with blended family issues, codependency, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, intellectual disability, autism and Asperger syndrome, isolation and loneliness, self-love, and women’s issues. People considering therapy with her are encouraged to confirm current session options before booking.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

CBT helps people notice patterns of thought that lead to unhelpful behavior. Online sessions using CBT typically involve identifying those thoughts, trying practical experiments between sessions, and tracking what changes. This approach suits issues like depression, anxiety, and career-related worry.

DBT focuses on building skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. In tele-sessions this often means learning short grounding exercises, practicing emotion regulation tools, and role-playing communication strategies to use in real life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may change as sessions progress.

The original profile does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They can also support people who prefer not to be on camera or who need sessions outside typical office hours. Licensed professionals tailor the mix of techniques and session length to what fits each person’s life.