LeToya McClay, LPC

LeToya McClay is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience based in Mississippi. She focuses on brief, goal-oriented work and aims to help people make meaningful changes in a short time. Her practice emphasizes practical steps that fit into busy lives. She often offers approaches suited to a six to ten session plan for people who want focused progress.

McClay draws on several therapeutic styles and adapts them to each person’s needs. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses attachment-informed and client-centered methods to explore relationship patterns and strengthen emotional understanding.

Her background includes long experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, attention and impulsivity concerns, and mood disorders. She also addresses worries around grief, intimacy, parenting, blended family issues, and multicultural concerns. She helps people cope with life changes and manage stress or anger in everyday situations.

Sessions are offered in English and are delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. McClay works with people on topics like self-esteem, codependency, fertility-related stress, and post-traumatic stress when present. She frames therapy as collaborative work where goals are set together.

People who prefer short, focused plans and clear steps often find her style helpful. She listens without judgment and offers practical tools to try between sessions. Her approach balances skill-building with attention to emotions and relationship patterns.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

LeToya commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions with concrete exercises. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and reactions. Client-centered methods are woven in to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities and pace.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands and then help pick methods that fit. That choice is revisited as progress is made so sessions stay useful and aligned with what matters most to the client.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day and to share notes or exercises between sessions.