A dedicated community advocate based in Hammond, Louisiana, Casonya Sims Williams is a counselor at New Hope in Baton Rouge. Since May 2022 when she assumed the role, she has been catering to families that have members with mental illness or emotional distress. Casonya Sims Williams provides services such as diagnosis, therapy, skills training, and education. She documents all services following state and company standards.
In addition to diagnostic and therapeutic services, Casonya Williams works closely with other mental health professionals to coordinate care for individuals. These professionals include psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, and school counselors.
On top of her work at New Hope, Casonya Williams works in the ER admissions department of PRN. She manages the facility’s admissions process, performing tasks such as establishing patients’ identities, handling incoming calls, providing target audiences with relevant information, assigning insurance information according to payer and facility guidelines, and transcribing physician orders.
Earlier in her career, Casonya Williams was a mental health professional at Telephonic. She provided therapy and skills training to families with children who had mental illnesses or were emotionally disturbed. She also engaged with people who had mental illness over the phone, achieved short-term goals of resolving crisis events, and facilitated referrals for outpatient and inpatient services.
She has a BA in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University and an MA also in counseling from Southern University in New Orleans. Her hobbies are reading, dancing, cooking, and completing crossword puzzles.