Dr. Tonia Hoskins, LCSW, CSW

Dr. Tonia Hoskins is the founder and owner of PEACE It's Priceless Mental Health Services and brings a blend of clinical training, leadership experience, and lived experience to her work. She earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in social work from Georgia State University and completed a PhD at Walden University, where her research explored African American women’s clinical experiences with European American clinicians. Her clinical credentials include LCSW and CSW - LCSW denotes Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW denotes Clinical Social Worker.

With eight years of professional practice, Dr. Hoskins has worked across a range of roles and settings. She has served as a forensic liaison, an educator to foreign dignitaries, a veterans department coordinator, and has held positions as a clinical director and quality assurance manager for multiple mental health agencies. As a veteran herself, she has experience providing mental health services to veterans during their final transition.

Dr. Hoskins maintains a high clinical caseload and has served over 200 patients weekly at times, reflecting both demand for her services and her capacity to manage complex needs. Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting, bipolar disorder, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among others. She draws on a broad toolkit that includes client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally focused therapy, mindfulness approaches, motivational interviewing, narrative and psychodynamic techniques, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused interventions.

Committed to promoting culturally informed care, Dr. Hoskins works to improve cultural competency through community engagement and research. She prioritizes expanding access to services across diverse populations to support equitable and effective delivery of mental health care.