About LaSonda
LaSonda Sylte is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, mood struggles, and ADHD. She writes short, direct plans with each person and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use day to day. Her tone is calm and straightforward, aimed at people who feel overwhelmed and need clear next steps.
With 23 years of experience in Indiana, she draws on several evidence-based approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. LaSonda emphasizes coping skills, emotion regulation, and practical problem solving rather than long academic explanations. She often works with people facing trauma, relationship problems, caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, and substance use issues.
Her experience includes helping people through big life changes, isolation, and the intense emotions that follow loss or conflict. LaSonda uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to create tools clients can use between sessions. She prefers a collaborative style - planning together and adjusting as progress is made.
Sessions are tailored to fit daily life. She supports people who need clearer routines, healthier boundaries, and more consistent coping strategies. The focus is on doable changes that reduce stress and improve functioning.
Clients who want a practical, steady approach will find her direct and compassionate. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and focused on what will help now and over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches specific techniques to change patterns that keep someone stuck. CBT is often used for mood, anxiety, and coping with ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. LaSonda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts tools and homework as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive skill practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat are useful for brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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