Telisa Hayden, LMHC

Telisa Hayden is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Telisa aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens closely and asks practical questions to clarify problems. Together with each person she shapes clear, achievable steps for change instead of vague goals. Telisa uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-based choices, and attachment work to untangle relationship patterns. With eight years of clinical experience, she helps people facing issues such as panic attacks, social anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, guilt and shame, body image, or isolation. Sessions can include skills practice, values clarification, and exercises to improve communication and emotion regulation. Telisa emphasizes collaboration - she and the person set goals and track progress together. Her goal is steady, practical improvement that fits into daily life.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Telisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and depression. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify personal values and build actions that align with those values when emotions feel overwhelming. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at patterns in close relationships and to improve communication and emotional connection.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Telisa collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews options, tries techniques, and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.