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.

08/31/2026

Ending National Wellness Month, Never forget that YOU are a vital member of the team!

✨ This year’s takeaway:
You can contribute to the collective without losing yourself in it. that focuses on self-care, healthy habits, and stress management, let’s acknowledge that there may be an “I” in team after all. Your voice, your perspective, your gifts and your well-being matter. How you honor your worth and show up authentically within the team is a responsibility of your own.

💙💚Grateful to return as a presenter for the NAMI Hillsborough, Inc. Annual Youth & Family Wellness Summit, providing psychoeducation and Art-to-Heart expressive arts tools that make mental wellness personal, creative, and practical.

A special thank you to the NAMI Hillsborough Board for trusting me once again and providing the opportunity to serve the NAMI community. It’s always an honor.

🎥 M I C O W H I T E

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08/18/2026

What happens when we explore the space between how we see ourselves on the inside and how we present ourselves to the outside world?

At Creatology’s Mind Over Medium event, I had the opportunity to blend psychoeducation with creativity, exploring how our brains create both separation and connection between our inner and outer selves.

🧠🎨Through Art-to-Heart expressive arts, participants were invited to move beyond words and use imagery, color, and creative expression to explore their perception of self, what we feel internally, what we show externally, and where the two connect.

Because sometimes, understanding ourselves requires more than talking about it. More so, Create it. Feel it.

A huge thank you to Creatology for creating space for mental wellness, creativity, and authentic connection.
I’m grateful to have been part of this experience! Creatology Community, I’ll see you next year!

08/13/2026

Pacing is the Process! With summer coming to an end and new chapters beginning, a reminder that in all of your transitional processing, the pace in which you transition is necessary for proper foundation!

✨A reminder that it’s all work, the inner and the outer!
✨ A reminder to provide adequate care in whatever way you service people.
✨A reminder that the tool for adequate care is to first care for yourself, intentionally!
✨ A reminder that even in my own stuff, we’re still morphing ethical clinicians over here!

08/04/2026

“You don’t have to lose to know you’ve lost.”

Are you persevering or self punishing?
Are you sacrificing or depleting?
Are you loving or overcompensating?
Are you stewarding or suffering?

✨For the overachievers, first generation children, the perfectionists, the leaders, the loyalists; give yourself permission to surrender to the “loss” when sustainability is your new version of “winning!”

06/30/2026

Your creativity isn’t gone…it’s just buried under overthinking.

If you’re an analytical thinker, entrepreneur, leader, or visionary, you’re probably amazing at solving problems.

But when was the last time you gave yourself permission to create without an agenda?

🧠🎨Research continues to show that creativity strengthens problem-solving, emotional regulation, and innovation.
Sometimes the breakthrough you’re searching for isn’t found by thinking more, it’s found by creating.

Join us for a FREE evening designed to help you reset your mind and reconnect with your creativity.

✨ Creatology Residence Week
📅 July 7
📍 Entrepreneur Collective Center

🕠 5:30 PM Networking & Mingling
🧘🏽 Meditation with Mya Cato | Wellness Educator & Yoga Guide
🎨 Art-to-Heart Expressive Arts with Danesha

Come pour into your mental wellness so you can continue pouring into your vision, your business, your leadership and your purpose.

🎟️ FREE to attend. Register you and a friend who needs a creative reset.
*Tuesday’s segment is almost full!!

06/25/2026

Yaaallllll, grief be coming back ok!!! It’s not that the process isn’t working or it’s “taking too long” sometimes other disappointments triggers the feeling of loss and then BOOM,
back in the feels we go.

🧠Grief is the loss of the significant person, place, thing, or idea, which includes things you’ve even hoped for.

🫟Today’s self care tip is to scribble, color outside the lines, purposely create without the need of perfection. Months ago, during the peek of grieving, I found a new coffee shop to work in and surprisingly met with an art group that invited me to join them in some creative coping.
* you never know how getting out of your comfort zone allows you to be poured into.

✨Be gentle with the parts of you that’s continuing to shed in the loss and intentionally pour into the current you that’s recreating, restoring and re structuring new identity.

06/23/2026

Heart Posture places people in their own selective spaces…

🧠Psychology term of the day: RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
to accept what is and operate accordingly to that acceptance.

In all things, uphold the standard for people to have access to you. However, Move accordingly without the need to attack, judge or fix someone else’s character.

06/16/2026

Why would I teach on “Creating a New Narrative” at this year’s Trauma Con?? Because trauma is the RESPONSE to harm. The language that you create create as a response of safety builds the narrative of who you are.

💙Thanks to Centerstone for having me at this year’s Trauma Con to teach psycho education and provide Art-to-Heart expressive art tools to enhance the importance of creativity and self expression for authentic identity and trauma resiliency.

✨For self reflection this week, ask yourself…
Is your narrative helping or holding you hostage?

Sometimes words just can’t describe the experience, so I’ll define the atmosphere… “Excellence!” 🖌️Partnering with The G...
06/12/2026

Sometimes words just can’t describe the experience, so I’ll define the atmosphere… “Excellence!”

🖌️Partnering with The Gentlemen’s Course, Inc. this semester to serve the students of through my Art-to-Heart expressive arts program has been a joy and a call to action of servitude.

✨The concept of teamwork is to pursuit selflessness! TAJ MAHAL | Identity Architect you’re so worthy of carrying the weight, executing extraordinary & curating culture through your lens of precision! Who else could even uphold such mantle?!!

🌻Not all the time are the team players are in the forefront.
To the giiirrlllsss
Rai Vondreia Florida Wedding & Elopement Photographer | Cristina Ramos Evona Lewis
when I was acknowledged at the gala, you were the loudest applause in the room, but your support is even louder in private!

Thank you Christopher King for setting the standard of community advocacy, for having me on the journey and for your unwavering support! May God restore 100 fold the seeds you’ve sown in year 44!

The 5th For the Love of Black Art, by ing was such an experimental e of culture, context & creativity. Thanks so much f...
06/05/2026

The 5th For the Love of Black Art, by ing was such an experimental e of culture, context & creativity.

Thanks so much for having 🎨 Art-to-Heart grace the presence of the room and leave its mark in the final bash.

✍🏿✍🏾The “Community Canvases” brought people with and without art experience to leave their mark in Tampa history.

The Prompt from the room to reflect on:
🖼️What does black art mean to you?

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