About Arkaya
Dr. Arkaya "Kady" Williams-Abbott is a licensed professional counselor with three decades of experience in Alabama. She goes by Kady and focuses on helping adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and substance use.
She offers straightforward, practical help and aims to make asking for support feel manageable. Kady works in a client-centered way that keeps the person's goals first. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different coping skills.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Her experience includes long-term work with people facing addiction and serious mental health challenges. She also assists people coping with grief, trauma, midlife transitions, workplace stress, and intimacy concerns.
Kady draws on this background to meet each person where they are. Sessions focus on clear steps you can try between meetings. That might look like trying a new way to handle conflict, practicing small behavior changes, or naming patterns that keep you feeling stuck.
The tone is collaborative and practical rather than theoretical. Kady earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Auburn University and a Master of Arts in Counseling from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and uses her training to guide treatment choices with each person.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy places the person's goals and experience at the center of each session. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and adjusts the conversation to match what feels most useful for the person. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on linking thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing skills between sessions. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational way to untangle mixed feelings about change. It aims to strengthen a person's own reasons for making changes, which can support work on substance use, health habits, or any situation where motivation is uneven.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try different methods, and adjust as progress unfolds. Together they will pick techniques that match the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for more in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and texts can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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