Therapist profile
Dr. Latasha McIlwaine, LPC
North Carolina
Dr. Latasha McIlwaine - LPC focusing on relationships and addictions
Continue with LatashaWhere Latasha stands
- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LCMHC, North Carolina / 6691; LPC, South Carolina / 5039; LPC, Georgia / LPC010296
- NPI
- 1063631331
- Experience
- 18 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- North Carolina
About
- Cognitive behavioral techniques
- Motivational interviewing
- Mindfulness and DBT skills
About Latasha
Dr. Latasha McIlwaine is an LPC with 18 years of counseling experience in the southeastern United States. She practices in North Carolina and has worked across South Carolina and Georgia. Her work focuses on addictions, relationships, self-esteem, career concerns, and depression, alongside related issues like codependency and isolation.
She uses practical, evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to help people change patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions can include skills work, structured problem-solving, and focused conversation about choices and goals. She also draws on dialectical behavior and mindfulness practices to help with emotional regulation and stress.
Latasha completed graduate work in mental health counseling and earned a Doctor of Education in counseling psychology. She supervises other counselors and teaches students at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her background includes work with addiction and domestic violence concerns and experience addressing blended family dynamics and separation.
In sessions she often combines brief solution-focused tools with longer-term skill building. That can mean setting small, concrete steps between appointments and practicing boundary or communication strategies in everyday life. Her approach frames problems as patterns that can be changed with specific, repeatable actions.
She also writes about recovery and resilience. Her book reflects lived experience and professional lessons about coping and making lasting changes. People who reach out are usually looking for clear strategies to stop putting others first, manage cravings or mood, and rebuild confidence.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Dr. McIlwaine commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in her work. CBT focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which helps with depression, anxiety, and relationship patterns. Motivational interviewing uses conversational techniques to clarify goals and strengthen a person’s reasons for change, often useful with addiction and ambivalence about boundaries.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Those tools are practical: breathing exercises, short grounding practices, and step-by-step behavior plans that can be practiced between sessions. Deciding which mix to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods over time rather than committing to one fixed method at the outset.
The practice offers tele-therapy as part of its private practice description, but confirm current session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit work on boundaries and coping strategies into a weekly routine, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy fits around employment or family schedules. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for your situation and how to structure sessions to support concrete behavior changes.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
18+ years
Listed in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to codependency?
She works with relationship patterns like people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, and living around another person’s drinking or crises.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style mixes practical skills and focused conversation, using CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to set clear steps and practice new behaviors.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 18 years of clinical experience working across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LPC with licensure noted in South Carolina and Georgia, and she practices in North Carolina.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
The biography mentions tele-therapy in private practice; confirm current session options before booking to be sure of formats and scheduling.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.