Safiya Telesford , LMHC, LPC

Safiya Telesford is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Safiya emphasizes practical steps and steady support so clients feel heard and guided through change.

Her sessions aim to honor each persons background and life story. She pays attention to how relationships and past patterns shape current feelings. That means talking about attachment, communication habits, and ways isolation can make things worse.

Safiya draws on a mix of evidence-based approaches to build strategies that fit each person. She uses clear tools for coping with anxiety, skills for handling intense emotions, and exercises that promote self-kindness. Those tools are shaped together with the person in the room rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all package.

People who connect with her often want practical skills plus a steady, respectful listener. Sessions move between identifying unhelpful patterns and practicing new ways of responding. The work includes short exercises, real-life practice, and regular check-ins on progress.

She also pays attention to seasonal mood changes and the particular strain that isolation or communication breakdowns can cause. Safiya supports people who want to build stronger self-esteem and clearer ways of relating to others. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that reflect personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and decision points in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety and depression and includes simple exercises to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can help when isolation or recurring conflict shows up in daily life.

Choosing the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time based on goals and preferences. That way the approach is tailored rather than fixed.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions are good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.