Tayona Fraylon, LCMHC

Tayona Fraylon is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She focuses on practical strategies rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage day-to-day struggles. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making change feel doable.

She helps people work through relationship strain, grief and loss, eating concerns, anger, depression, stress, anxiety, and addiction-related challenges. Intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, parenting stress, and self-esteem concerns are also part of her practice. Tayona also addresses complex topics such as trauma and abuse and supports people coping with major life changes.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques when useful. That means sessions often include practical tools - thought tracking, behavior experiments, grounding skills, and values-based actions - tailored to the person in front of her. She adapts language and pacing to each person’s needs.

With five years of clinical work, Tayona draws on experience helping people from a variety of backgrounds. She aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity and to build a collaborative plan that fits daily life. Progress is paced to the individual rather than rushed.

To begin she asks people to share current concerns and goals so sessions can focus on what matters most. The work emphasizes clear steps you can try between meetings and ways to measure what is changing over time.

CBT, ACT and DBT tools over video and messaging

Many of Tayona’s sessions use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. CBT often includes short exercises between meetings to practice new ways of thinking and acting that can ease symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify personal values and take committed action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness work is needed; those skills are practical and skill-based.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tayona will talk through your goals and preferences, then try methods that fit your daily routines and comfort. She checks in regularly to adjust the plan if something isn’t working.

Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls work well for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, skill coaching, or times when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.