About Fay
Fay Callam is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience. She practices with a client-centered approach and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she treats each person as the expert on their life.
Fay uses practical, evidence-informed tools like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people calm racing thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on trauma-focused methods to address difficult memories and reactions that come from past abuse or adverse childhood experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to set clear goals and build skills that can be used day to day. Her background includes advanced study and a long career in social work. Fay’s work is grounded in ethics and in supporting each person’s right to choose their direction.
She pays attention to cultural issues and seasonal mood shifts when those things matter to a person’s struggles. People come to her for a range of concerns such as depression, grief, substance use, self-harm behaviors, relationship and boundary struggles, parenting strain, career stress, bipolar management, and coping with life changes. She supports people working through both immediate problems and longer term patterns.
Fay works from Alaska and offers services in English. She accepts international clients and uses flexible online formats to fit different schedules. Her approach focuses on collaboration - she listens first, then helps plan realistic steps toward the goals a person brings.
With decades of practice, Fay aims to help people find steady ways to manage symptoms and move toward the life they want.
Approaches online: practical tools for anxiety and trauma
Fay frequently uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and building goals together. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the work toward the changes they want to make.She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches skills to reduce anxious thinking and improve mood. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges. For people coping with traumatic memories, she may use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a structured method that works with how the brain stores distressing memories to reduce their intensity.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Fay will talk with each person about their needs, preferences, and goals, and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with Fay is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for full conversations, phone calls work well when video is difficult, live chat and text suit brief check-ins or ongoing notes. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and energy levels, and make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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