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Dream Identity Counseling ,Tampa Florida, counseling services for healthcare workers in Tampa Florida, virtual therapy in Fl

THE DREAM IDENTITY MOVEMENT

 "creatively navigating  systemic success and wellness to become our Dream Identity”

Mission Statement 

Our mission at Dream Identity is to empower and support individual youth, adults and families through life challenges by navigating unhealthy belief systems and behaviors through holistic and creative wellness strategies to help cultivate their desired lives of fostering a journey from surviving to thriving

"Dream Identities." 

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Vision

The vision of Dream Identity is to use years of training and experience to create and provide result-driven services  to help others recover and renew  through counseling, creative support, self development tools and community based services. Our offerings include mental health counseling, workplace wellness consulting, and our Art-to-Heart traveling Art Therapy program.  We aim to serve healthcare workers and community members through application of behavioral and mental wellness tools to de-stigmatize mental health and reduce resistance towards

holistic health care. 

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The Therapist 

Danesha Ward-Simmons, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, located in the State of Florida and founder of Dream Identity Counseling.  Danesha values family, creativity, adventure and collective wellness.

  Danesha works under the belief that community is built within each individual.

  “If we are all individually accountable for how we are cultivating our best self, we create a greater community.”

                                                                                       -Danesha 

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Inspired by the people in her life that continue to maintain a positive outlook, authentic character and faith in some of their darkest moments of life, their will to strive showed Danesha that, "Failure is only when you stop trying, not when life shifts direction." Teaching her that dreams are made from constant trial and error and change is inevitable to create our Dream Identity.

Danesha has created multiple services in the mental health field to promote holistic and creative wellness within the community. Read more of her works in her official bio.

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Approach

Danesha's approach for individuals, families, and the community is to promote holistic wellness.  She connects the ability to incorporate  integrative psycho-educational modalities, practices of mindfulness, and expressive art therapy techniques to help you grow from a life of carrying those heavy feelings inside to effective coping.  She works with her client's to help them learn effective skills to get off their routine “go-mode” of life and promote balance and stress release. As a National Certified Counselor, Danesha  holds value in collaborating with community partners to promote social change.  As a Coach, she uses an array of skills to provide services that give you solution focused tools for success.  As a Certified Trauma Professional,  she believes that the individual is a part of a greater system and each shares a role for cohesion and support.  As a wellness consultant, she  takes a deeper view into how each work employee contributes to personal and workplace wellness.

"The Dream Identity": About Me
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CERTIFICATIONS

Licensed Mental Health Counselor #22427
National Certified Counselor

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  • Certified Family Trauma Professional

  • Clinical Tele-mental Health Certification

  • Certified Chronic Disease Management Trainer

  • Certified Mindfulness Instructor

  • Certified Expressive Therapies: Creative Interventions for Emotional Regulation and Self-Awareness 

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NETWORK MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Counseling Association

  • Gulf Coast Mental Health Counselor Association

  • Minority Mental Health Committee of SWFL

  • Psychology Today

  • Therapy for Black Girls

  • Therapy Tribe

  • Thervo

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