Latoya Love is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Missouri. She received her B.A. in Counseling from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in 2009. In 2013, she received her M.A. in Counseling from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
She is a wife and mother who is passionate about enriching the lives of people in the urban core especially as it pertains to self-care and mental health.
Latoya began practicing in 2013 as a therapist at MOCSA where she specialized in trauma and sexual abuse. In 2015, she became a registered play therapist. In addition, she took up level 2 EMDR training, a psychotherapy treatment designed to alleviate stress from post-traumatic memories. During this training, she centered her studies on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with the goal of helping children, teenagers, and their caregivers work through distressing events.
Latoya is also well-versed in the Thinking for a Change Curriculum designed for incarcerated individuals.
She is currently serving people in recovery from drugs and alcohol abuse with adults.
Education
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M.A. Counseling, Webster University, 2013
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B.A. Counseling, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2009
Expertise
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Play Therapy
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
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Thinking for a Change Curriculum