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Dream Identity Counseling

As a counselor , I acknowledge individual challenges and provide creative and holistic approaches to

Danesha Ward-Simmons, LMHC, NCC, CFTP is the owner and founder of Dream Identity Counseling. Services provided are:
Individual and Group Counseling, Coaching Services, Business Wellness Consulting, Public Speaking and Art-to-Heart art therapy technique and release groups.

03/24/2026

🔑Proximity doesn’t mean Present
🔑Available doesn’t mean Active
🔑Hearing doesn’t mean Listening

One of the biggest complaints I receive from employees through my Workplace Wellness Consulting is that leadership struggles in active listening skills.

🧠I use these skills to teach counseling students, leaders in the workplace and the average person in therapy that your attentiveness in communication starts with you quieting your mind to receive before you announce your voice to give.

💫I challenge you this week to be more mindful in your presence with others. Allow yourself to be poured into so that you have more to give.

03/19/2026

The impact of mentorship is a 2way experience. A journey of exploration, trust and the constant seek for relatability to connect in vastly different worlds. What better way for the “Bigs” of to connect with their “Littles” through expressive art?!!

🖌️The goal is for these Art experiences to translate into language that uncovers and unveils what the heart needs to say, and that we all did!

🌟Thanks to Jennifer, Program Director, and the exceptional team at Big Brothers Big Sisters Tampa Bay for trusting me with your population.

🌟Thanks for the YMCA Riverview family for hosting us and your welcoming staff that assisted the day to run so smoothly!

🌟Thanks to the super wise and warm hearted USF Social Work Interns that helped me with navigating the audience, set up, quickly shifting to manage two back to back groups all while soaking in training and providing insight.

P.S. sometimes timing is delayed for greater to occur… be great in the wait!

03/17/2026

I tried to be every woman at one point, & I was literally dying from the inside out!! I know “being every woman” at some times is forceful for survival as the back bone, the leader, the parentified daughters, the single mothers, the family chain breakers, the abandoned and heartbroken ones…

However, how will you choose your areas of give-and-take to save you first, to be the woman you need for YOU!

03/12/2026

The is more than a conference, it was a reminder that the younger generation have a hunger and drive to innovate their professional selves, but also to break barriers within their personal selves.

Last week, I had the opportunity to pour into a group of such inspirational students yearning for tools to cultivate their whole self.

📉As Dream Identity’s Business owner, I normalized managing stress and anger in the pivots.

📚As a Professor of Counseling representing , I taught tangible tools for interpersonal connections.

🎨As the creator of Art-to-Heart, I used expressive arts to explore emotions though creative expression

🧘🏾‍♀️As the Holistic Therapist, we explored challenges and resilience of emotional intelligence

✨Lastly, as Danesha, I honored my wisdom stemming from my own experience of burnout and the importance of adapting all parts of us, our personal and social self, to
“Live Beyond the Mask” that stunts authenticity.

Thank you for hanging me!

02/26/2026

To say that “You don’t see color” is quite literally offensive dismissive and a lie!

🧠 The brain seeks validation by being seen in your fullness, not dismissal.

✨Black history doesn’t end this month, it’s the awareness of our daily existence.

02/18/2026

Celebrating Black History is to also highlight the challenges minorities are forced to navigate within the workplace. Cultural abuse within the workplace is real! So much of employee wellness and productivity is impacted by the dismissal of adequate multicultural care.

So here a a few tips I shared with HR Tampa, the Human Resource association of leaders within the workforce of Tampa, Florida.
🔑Cultural competence includes educating yourself about diversity.
🔑Cultural humility requires respect for others and their cultural orientation.
Notice neither of these include “to like or agree with”
In other words, even if you’re not “like able” within your workplace environment, there are ethical guidelines for proper treatment rod respect. Learn them, know them, advocates for them, request and uphold them. These are in place not as preferences but as your mandates right!

*HR Tampa, if you missed this year, I’m back in Q2! Stay tuned to your outreach for dates 🤗

02/16/2026

To Feb 10th,
What a Sweet Love Letter you birthed! 💜 🎁💌

Sincerely,
Danesha

*Thanks for all the bday love! To my peeps that love me out loud and give me space to evolve in private and quiet,
Truly, thank you for loving me in my capacity!

02/13/2026

Words of affirmation is such an underrated love language. Through the power of words.. you can empower, instill, equip, demolish, demean and defeat.

With whatever expectation you have for this year’s “Love” day, remember to align your actions with intentional language. Give people their flowers in the present 🌸🌷🌹

🗣️Affirm, praise, reassure, highlight, admire, give thanks & ask ways you can be of service.

Ps.. This was my child’s Valentine’s gift to his teachers✨

02/05/2026

After experiencing complex grief as a teen, my parents placed me in therapy… As talkative as I’ve always been, a warning sign that I needed help with grieving and expression was because I began to be more silent. My therapist used my passions of creative methods such as creative writing, poetry, art and music to help me open up in the therapy process.

🎨Creative Arts Benefits:
-It was through creative expression and chemistry with my therapist where I found my voice again
-It filled in the gaps of what words couldn’t express from a broken heart
-& lastly, It gave me tangible coping skills to process the weight of grief and re-write the narrative good byes.

I recently had the opportunity to partner with the to present the same experience that was once shared to me to teen girls of .littlesistuhs that are also finding their authentic voice, learning ways to cope with life stressors and creatively create their Dream Identity.

Thanks for allowing me to serve your precious gems! 💎

02/03/2026

What happens when mental health clinicians come together to talk real-life, mainstream wellness?
👉🏽 You get TRUTH.
“She Speaks Truth” is a once a month live series hosted by bringing honest conversations about wellness-based living, straight from the experts. We will each rotate segments throughout the year to keep you engaged with various angles of wellness, so stay connected to catch your people in action.

✨ This Sunday, Feb 8th at 6 PM EST, I’ll be joining the live and I’m excited for this week’s topic!
📍 Tune in on TikTok Live via
Come for the conversation. Stay for the truth.
See you there 💬🖤
TikTokLive

02/01/2026

Sing it with me guys..”It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeaaarrr!!!” Peak season for therapy is officially over for me and my new year has officially began.

To our new Dream Identity friends… Here’s some things to look forward to over here:

✨wellness baddie, because I get fine for fun
🧠psycho educational facts because I’ve studied the human brain and its correlation to emotions & behaviors for 13 yrs now
Ⓜ️Memphis lingo, because it’s just in me not on me
🌿Well rounded holistic health tips like heal your gut for emotional balance but also grab a French fry…they prevent crash outs
💃🏾Mommy mental health tips like emotional regulation through demonstration because you’re molding your child’s brain waves, but also every now and then forget them kids and go outside because you were a hottie before a mommy
* Note: I’m stingy with my child, you won’t get much of the kid, so don’t ask!
🏢Workplace wellness strategies because I’ve experienced corporate burnout, hence the reason I left for private practice, so I push the importance of being a well employee for effective productivity & burnout prevention
📝Leadership & Clinician Tips of how to provide people with adequate care because.. well….code of ethics!
🎨how to shift perspectives, see art and creativity in all things as a coping strategy but as a way to narrate trauma resiliency
📚authentic living, which may require some teachings of rebelling against y’all made up social constructs & eradicate some ineffective core beliefs.
🌟 & lastly, I’m not your content creator, I contently create, share my experiences and I dip out when God tells me to shut up and be still!

So while we have me, I’m glad to have you here! Let’s get cozy and acquainted… enjoy!

📸 .isabelphotography

01/07/2026

Allow your momentum this year to derive from intentional movement, not from rush, fear, over indulgence, over compensation, hyper fixation, greed or sloth.

🧠Anxiety usually peaks starting the year for so many based on self reflection of what’s moving in life in comparison to personal and societal expectations. Structure your movement to align with your overall standard of momentum, the outcome of what you’re wanting to see, and trust that the motion will flow in your pace of movement.

📖 Romans 12:11-13

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