About LaToya
LaToya St. Pierre, LMHC-QS, LPC, RYT-200
Psychotherapist • Holistic Sex Therapist • Florida Qualified Supervisor
I'm LaToya St. Pierre, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado, and Florida Qualified Supervisor.
I work with adults navigating trauma, relationship challenges, sexual wellness concerns, identity, life transitions, self-esteem, anxiety, and the often-complex process of becoming more deeply connected to themselves.
My approach to therapy is holistic, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, relational, and collaborative. I am interested not only in what you are experiencing, but in the broader context surrounding it: your relationships, history, identities, culture, environment, body, beliefs, strengths, values, and the ways you have learned to survive and make meaning of your experiences.
I believe there is a meaningful difference between treating symptoms and understanding a person.
My goal is to create space for both.
This Is My Story
My journey into this work began long before professional titles, degrees, and licenses.
I have always been deeply curious about human experience—how we make meaning of what happens to us, how relationships shape us, what we carry forward from our histories, and what allows people to reconnect with themselves after periods of pain, disconnection, uncertainty, or change.
That curiosity eventually became a professional calling.
My work has allowed me to sit alongside people in many different seasons of life and across a variety of clinical and community settings. Those experiences have continually reinforced something I believe deeply: people cannot be fully understood outside of the contexts in which they have lived.
Our emotional lives are influenced by relationships, family, culture, community, identity, systems, history, environment, the body, and the meanings we make from our experiences.
That understanding shapes the way I practice today.
I do not enter the therapy room assuming that my role is to tell you who you should become. Instead, I bring curiosity, clinical knowledge, reflection, compassion, and a willingness to explore alongside you.
Sometimes our work involves developing new skills.
Sometimes it involves grieving.
Sometimes it involves recognizing patterns that once protected you but no longer fit your life.
Sometimes it involves challenging beliefs you have carried for years.
And sometimes healing is less about becoming someone new and more about reconnecting with parts of yourself that have been buried, silenced, forgotten, or simply waiting for room to emerge.
My Approach
Collaborative. Reflective. Intentional.
I view therapy as a relationship and a collaborative process.
You bring expertise about your life, your experiences, your values, and what it feels like to live inside your world. I bring clinical training, therapeutic skills, perspective, curiosity, and a responsibility to practice ethically and thoughtfully.
Together, we pay attention.
We may explore patterns in your relationships, the impact of trauma, emotional responses, boundaries, sexuality and intimacy, beliefs about yourself, nervous-system responses, cultural and relational experiences, spirituality, identity, self-compassion, or the ways you have learned to protect yourself.
I draw from evidence-informed therapeutic approaches while recognizing that no single framework can fully explain the complexity of a human life.
There may be moments when therapy is deeply reflective and moments when it is practical and skills-focused. There may be laughter. There may be discomfort. There may be questions for which neither of us immediately has an answer.
All of that can belong in the work.
I want therapy to be a place where curiosity is possible, where your autonomy is respected, and where we can examine not only what hurts but also what supports your resilience, joy, connection, agency, and capacity for change.
Professional Background
Education & Experience
My educational background includes two CACREP-accredited Master of Arts degrees: Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Addiction Counseling.
I have also completed specialized training in holistic sex therapy through the Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment and am a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200).
My professional experience has included work across private practice, community mental health, correctional settings, higher education, and other diverse clinical and community environments.
I am also a Florida Qualified Supervisor and provide clinical supervision to emerging therapists developing their clinical judgment, professional identity, ethical practice, and capacity for reflective work.
Continued learning is an important part of how I understand ethical practice. My work continues to be informed by ongoing education, consultation, reflection, and a willingness to reconsider what I think I know.
Where I Stand
Positionality, Privilege & Accountability
Therapy does not happen in a vacuum—and neither does the therapist.
I bring my own history, identities, culture, education, lived experiences, values, privileges, assumptions, and limitations into the work. Ethical practice requires that I remain aware of how those factors shape what I notice, how I understand others, and how I use my role as a clinician.
I recognize that people can simultaneously experience marginalization and hold privilege. Education, professional status, socioeconomic access, appearance, perceived attractiveness, colorism, body politics, and other social factors can influence how we are received and what opportunities are available to us. I believe those realities deserve reflection rather than denial.
The therapeutic relationship also carries an inherent power differential. As a clinician, I hold professional authority, and I believe that power should be used thoughtfully, transparently, and with respect for client autonomy.
My approach is informed by cultural humility and a decolonizing lens. This means remaining willing to question whose values are centered in mental-health frameworks, how culture and systems shape distress, and whether something being labeled dysfunctional may also be an adaptation to a person's environment, history, relationships, or lived experience.
I do not believe cultural responsiveness means becoming an expert on every identity or experience. I will have blind spots. My responsibility is to remain curious, continue learning, seek consultation when needed, invite feedback, and repair when I get something wrong.
You do not need to share my worldview, beliefs, values, culture, spirituality, or identity to work with me. Therapy is not about shaping you into someone who thinks like I do. Your autonomy and sovereignty matter.
My commitment is to remain reflective, accountable, and willing to examine my own practice as deeply as I ask clients and supervisees to examine theirs.
This statement reflects where I am in my understanding today, and I expect it to continue evolving as I learn and unlearn.
Positionality is not a disclaimer. It is a practice.
What Guides My Work
Values That Guide My Practice
Autonomy
Your right to make choices about your life and your healing matters.
Integrity
I value transparency, ethical practice, accountability, and honest communication.
Cultural Humility
Your experiences deserve to be understood within their cultural, relational, historical, and systemic contexts.
Whole-Person Care
Mind, body, relationships, identity, culture, environment, and spirit can all matter in understanding human experience.
Reflection
I believe clinicians should remain willing to examine themselves as thoughtfully as we ask clients to examine their lives.
Humor & Humanity
Therapy is serious work, but neither of us has to stop being human while we do it.
Is My Approach Right for You?
You may resonate with my approach if you are looking for therapy that makes room for complexity.
You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what is wrong, what needs to change, or where we should begin.
You may simply know that something in your life, relationships, sense of self, or way of moving through the world deserves more attention.
We can begin there.