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.

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?

05/27/2026

Small Business Month is more than celebrating entrepreneurship, it’s recognizing the character, integrity, and leadership required to lead with purpose.

💡As a Workplace Wellness Consultant, I teach that true headmanship is not just about being in charge; it’s about having the wisdom to serve, the discipline to stay grounded, and the courage to make decisions that impact others with intention.

📈As small business owners, our leadership sets the tone for our teams, our clients, and our communities. May we continue to build businesses rooted in vision, humility, accountability and authentic leadership.

🌱✨Here’s to the leaders who understand that success is not only measured by profit, but by character.

05/18/2026

Through creativity, conversation, and community, Art to Heart Expressive ArtTherapy Program partnered with at Academy Prep Center of Lakeland to equip youth with tools that nurture both emotional awareness and personal growth.

✏️📚🎨While the Gentlemen’s Course develops forward-thinking leadership, confidence, and etiquette, Art to Heart creates space for youth to safely explore their feelings, express themselves creatively, and strengthen emotional wellness. Together, we’re helping shape well-rounded young leaders from the inside out.

Here are ways you can continue to support this mission:
✨ Become a sponsor or purchase your ticket for the upcoming 11th annual gala on June 6 to help provide tangible resources for youth development
✨ Become a community partner to expand engagement and access to care
✨ Donate $44 to The Gentlemen’s Course in honor of 44th birthday!

05/12/2026

Grief doesn’t just live in the parent… children feel it too, even when they don’t have the words for it, they sense absence.

🤍In my quest of deciding, How do you explain grief to a 4 year old?…I remembered that Healing doesn’t always happen through long conversations. Sometimes it happens in laughter, movement and exploratory moments of imagination.

🧠Research in child-centered play therapy shows that consistent therapeutic play can improve emotional regulation, reduce anxiety, strengthen attachment, and help children process difficult experiences in developmentally appropriate ways.

🌺Mom tip:
When a mom simply stays emotionally present during play, it creates safety. That safety helps children regulate emotions, express grief indirectly, and rebuild connection after loss or trauma.

🧩Because in those moments of play:�✨ the pressure to “have it together” softens�✨ connection replaces isolation�✨ both parent and child feel seen without needing perfect words
✨creates a natural language to process big emotions & big life changes

❓How will you let your inner child play today?

🧠Did you know the same part of your brain that stores trauma also stores creativity?? Which means, You either live the n...
05/06/2026

🧠Did you know the same part of your brain that stores trauma also stores creativity?? Which means, You either live the narrative you’ve been given or you “Create a New Narrative” that honors your history, your present and your future!

💙💚Join me at this year’s TraumaCon2026 Trauma Conference & Resource Fair hosted by where myself and other community leaders and wellness providers are “Nurturing Courageous Healing” through psycho education and tangible tools for trauma resilience.

❗️Clinicians, there will be CEU opportunities.
Ticket🔗 is in bio!

Pausing to Bloom🌷:In February of this year, a week after my birthday, my God-Sister, a loved one since childhood, commit...
05/04/2026

Pausing to Bloom🌷:
In February of this year, a week after my birthday, my God-Sister, a loved one since childhood, committed su***de four hours after we hung up the phone. Initially, the first two stages of grief were denial and anger. I purposely pushed reality to the side so that I can focus on reality. God was kind enough to let me withstand and power through all of the commitments I was tied to for the month of March, then in April, He intentionally placed me at pause, so that I could properly grieve my new reality; my existence without one of the most significant attachments in my life.

It was neccessary to take my cape off and lean into the foundation of restoration, regulating my nervous system, rebalancing my hormones, holding space for the raw emotions, leaning in close to people that love me fully & releasing so I could pour.

So in the month of May, I’ll share some tools I used in the pause and reminders of the journey that
✨ “Therapist are Human Too!”

🌻We fertilize our soil to help others bloom. This is my ode to self, that Flowers still Bloom in the Rain!

🌟To my fellow clinicians, how honored I am to be with you, to be one of you, to walk along side you & to SEE YOU!

💙💚All hail to Mental Health Awareness Month! 💙💚

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!

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