Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard

Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard, LMSW, is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 18 years of experience helping people navigate difficult seasons of life with compassion, respect, and clinical skill. Her work has included private practice, telehealth, and school-based settings, giving her experience supporting diverse clients across the lifespan, including adolescents, teens, and adults.

She understands how overwhelming life can feel and believes that reaching out for therapy can be an important, courageous step when stressors start to feel too heavy to manage alone. Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard aims to offer a supportive, nonjudgmental, culturally responsive space where clients can feel heard and understood while working toward meaningful goals.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and individualized. Rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all model, she partners with each client to clarify strengths, identify priorities, and build practical skills that support growth in everyday life. She has experience working with concerns such as ADHD, anger management, anxiety, autism spectrum concerns, mood disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, learning disabilities, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, self-esteem challenges, self-harm, social anxiety, stress, trauma, and related challenges.

Latonia Grissom-Blue Pollard uses an integrative, evidence-based framework and may draw from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy, mindfulness-based practices, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Play Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Her goal is to help clients develop insight, strengthen emotional resilience, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence as they work toward a more balanced, fulfilling life.