Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard, LMSW

Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard is a Michigan-based Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 18 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life moments with clinical skill and compassion. She has worked across private practice, telehealth, and school-based settings, supporting adolescents, teens, and adults through a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns.

Her practice emphasizes a warm, collaborative style tailored to each person she sees. Rather than using a single approach for everyone, she partners with clients to clarify goals, identify strengths, and develop practical strategies that support lasting change. Sessions focus on building insight, emotional resilience, and skills that translate to daily life.

Latonia’s clinical experience includes work with ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, panic attacks, mood disorders, autism spectrum concerns, learning differences, self-esteem challenges, and self-harm, among other issues. She draws from an integrative, evidence-based framework that includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Mindfulness-Based Practices, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Play Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. This range of approaches allows her to meet clients where they are and offer practical tools for growth.

Latonia approaches therapy as a partnership in which the client’s perspective guides the work. She welcomes the opportunity to support individuals and families seeking clearer direction, emotional balance, and meaningful improvement in day-to-day functioning.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Latonia frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT focuses on changing thinking and behavior in ways that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT strategies can be especially helpful for intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative work. Latonia will review your goals, symptoms, and preferences and recommend evidence-based techniques, adjusting the plan as progress and needs evolve. This collaborative process helps ensure therapy aligns with each client’s unique situation.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, maintain continuity of care across life changes, and access licensed professionals from home or another convenient location.