Dream Identity Counseling

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.

04/23/2026

🔑”Confidence is Key”…. Yea, but how do we build it? It’s through the “yes” to yourself!
🧠 tip: Your brain builds safety through clarity. Once you confirm that you can at least try something, it continues to learn safety outside of your comfort zone. The resistance is only to protect you from potential harm in the unknown.

❓ What have you considered, contemplated, tried and given up? I dare you to take the step toward the unknown and give yourself a “Yes!” It just might work out. Either way, the win is instilling the confidence within✨

04/14/2026

Radical Acceptance: accepting exactly what is!
Usually, God gives me a word, I record it & wait for him to tell me to release it. I realized this word was planted through me, just for me in the time that I need it the most.

🧠Disappoint triggers the brain to retract as a protective factor.
🙌🏾Faith requires movement even in the disappointment.

🌻A reminder to step back in your proper placement as you radically accept the journey. Your own mess isn’t big enough to forfeit the promise.

✨What He favors, He will make room to Fit!!

04/06/2026

Let’s not allow the routine of the day to strip away your creativity, your identity, your polarity. Professionalism doesn’t have to be so plain!

🧠: your brain responds to your world view based on the effort you pour into yourself. Lack of care in presentation impacts lack of will to be present and to present. YOU are the presentation!

🌻I get so many compliments on my combination of my masculine and feminine wardrobe, my constant hair change, my nails that tell a story in every design. So here’s a tribute to just a few moments from Q1 as somebody’s fly college professor✨

🎨Color Psychology: Baby it’s spring! Put them dark colors up and slap on some vibrancy… watch how it boosts your mood!

Ending Women’s History, here’s a sweet love letter to for creating such a groundbreaking experience and moment in time ...
03/31/2026

Ending Women’s History, here’s a sweet love letter to for creating such a groundbreaking experience and moment in time with

Experiences like this remind me I was chosen for this; To receive, connect, learn, integrate, grow and pour out.

🍀There was a moment during the panel when it was just me and a bold gentleman in the room sitting in stillness, in vulnerability, and in that moment he set himself and others free by allowing a women to pour into his cup.

Grateful to sit alongside some incredible humans and witness their wisdom. daniels5




👑Lastly, honored to be a part of a woman using all of her intersections of life to create history..

✨Remember women, all it takes is the vision and the 1st step to start. You’re already making history in the becoming.
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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 🤗

To Feb 10th, What a Sweet Love Letter you birthed! 💜 🎁💌Sincerely, Danesha *Thanks for all the bday love! To my peeps tha...
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✨

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