Maggie Latta-Milord, LCMHCA, LPSC
Maggie is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate and North Carolina Licensed School Counselor who works with young clients who are building skills to express and cope with emotions in a healthy way and with adult clients who may not have had a chance to build those skills when they were younger. She believes in a strengths-based approach and working together to co-create the therapeutic experience. Your counseling journey will be about you- your needs, your interests, and your goals. With Maggie, you are welcome to be your full authentic self, mess and all, no apologies.
Qualifications |
Maggie received her M.Ed. in School Counseling from North Carolina State University in 2022. Maggie holds both her Licensed Clinical Mental Health Associate (License #:A17953) and her North Carolina School Counselor license (License #: 1257681). Additionally, Maggie completed an ACA Certificate in Counseling Interventions and Evidence-Based Treatment for Specific Issues with Children and Youth.
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Counseling Background |
Maggie was inspired to become a counselor through experiences working with community-based public health in both Leogane, Haiti and Tarboro, North Carolina after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2015. Working closely with communities experiencing both collective and personal traumas and witnessing the impact on health and wellbeing, it became very apparent to her that mental health is where she wanted to dedicate efforts toward learning and healing.
Maggie works as an elementary school counselor with Winston Salem/ Forsyth County Schools and loves helping young learners learn to recognize and cope with emotions, better understand a sense of self and identity, and begin to foster and recognize healthy friendships and relationships. Maggie previously worked as a clinician with Solace Counseling and Consulting serving adults and children. |
Specialization |
With a background in elementary school counseling, building those foundational social emotional skills is a passion for her, but she also loves supporting clients of all ages (5+), because she is acutely aware that not everyone has had access to opportunities as a young person to experience and explore both emotions and identity and integrate those skills into understanding and caring for themselves and their relationships.
Maggie has an eclectic approach and loves creatively tailoring the therapy experience alongside clients based on their interests and ways of communicating; she regularly uses play, art, books, and nature as platforms for expression and connection in therapy. Her therapeutic approach is eclectic, blending person-centered, solution-focused, and narrative therapy and incorporating mindfulness, restorative practices, and trauma-informed techniques. She enjoys working with clients who are facing recent transitions as well as clients who are navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and/or ADHD. Maggie is an open and affirming counselor welcoming clients of all cultural and identity backgrounds. Maggie is also fluent in Haitian Creole and able to provide counseling services in Kreyòl as well as English. |
Personal Life |
Maggie lives in Winston Salem with her family. She spends both professional time and personal time helping little ones navigate big feelings as she is equal parts proud and tired mom to a very fast toddler and a ready-to-roll baby. Coffee is always welcome.
She loves to garden and gets particularly excited about vegetable gardens. Maggie and her husband love taking on new projects, and the most recent has been building a chicken coop and welcoming a few baby chicks. Maggie is an avid women’s soccer fan which tracks right along with her storied childhood career as a competitive benchwarmer. Maggie enjoys cooking, hiking, skiing, having her sisters keep her on the phone too long, bringing a competitive spirit to a dominoes game or ping pong match, biking, and taking stroller walks through her neighborhood with her family. |
