About Aaliyah
Aaliyah Rashad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, struggle with low self-esteem, face depression, or are wrestling with relationship strain and life changes. Her approach centers on practical steps you can use between sessions to feel better day to day.
She sees therapy as a team effort. Clients are treated as the experts on their own lives while she offers guidance and tools.
Background and approach
Conversations move from describing problems to testing small changes that fit your goals and values. Aaliyah draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult thoughts and keep moving toward what matters.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help calm the nervous system and improve focus. Sessions include problem-solving, skill practice, and planning actions you can take between visits. The pace is steady and pragmatic, with attention to what’s realistic for daily life.
Progress is measured by how your routines, mood, and relationships begin to shift. She works with people who want clearer priorities and more reliable coping skills. The goal is not quick fixes but steady changes that help you feel more capable and connected.
Online approaches that fit your daily life
Aaliyah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and building coping routines. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and committing to actions that match your values. ACT can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life you want.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with you about your goals and preferences and together you will try methods that feel most helpful. The plan can shift as you learn what produces small wins and better coping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins and skill practice between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping care consistent and flexible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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