Our Team
The Self Inside’s Therapist Team
Latania Franklin, LCSW, Owner
After graduating from Loyola University Chicago in 2014, Latania worked as a school social worker for 5 years in a public charter high school in Chicago. Once she obtained her LCSW license in 2018, Latania entered the world of private practice. As the result of her own healing journey, Latania has a special passion for and specializes in working with women who wants to heal from family and generational trauma. Latania’s main goal as a therapist is to help her clients reach their highest potential by helping them process their past so they can live the life they desire. Latania has mainly worked with minority and underrepresented populations.
Outside of her work, Latania loves listening to music, reading, engaging in her spiritual practices such as using crystals and mediating as well as dancing, and spending time with her son.
Denika McMillen, LCSW
Denika is a Chicagoan who is returning to her roots to help her sisters who may need support and healing on their way. After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Social Work, she has spent the last twenty-seven years working as a therapist and counselor in the public sector as well as private practices. Denika has a wealth of experience working with Black women, including those within the LGBTQ+ community, those confronting life challenges such as depression, anxiety, and trauma issues.
Denika's main goal as a therapist is for clients to give themselves permission to put down their cape, have time and breathe for themselves, and grow into the person that they would and can be. The process may be difficult at times and they will not be alone on this journey. Being allowed to let go of the "shackles" that hold them down and to alchemize into their true selves, is the existence that everyone deserves.
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