About Folayan
Folayan Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 13 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on building confidence and motivation. She talks with clients about relationships, family tensions, and life transitions in a direct, practical way.
She starts by listening to each person’s story and identifying strengths that can be used toward change. Sessions are collaborative - the client’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Folayan centers the conversation on realistic steps that fit daily life rather than abstract theory. Her approach draws on client-centered methods to keep the client’s voice central. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and to teach coping skills.
When emotions feel intense, she brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage distress and improve emotional regulation. Folayan often helps people facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, or career stress. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, caregiving stress, relationship communication problems, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Practical tools and skills are emphasized alongside personal insight. Sessions aim to feel like focused conversations that lead to tangible changes. Folayan offers steady encouragement while helping clients develop new habits and ways of responding.
She works with each person at their pace to build clearer goals and workable strategies.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. It helps people feel heard and helps identify personal strengths to draw on during hard moments.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behaviors. In online sessions this translates to practical skill-building, like spotting unhelpful thinking and practicing new responses between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Online delivery can include coaching on grounding exercises and step-by-step emotion regulation strategies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Then she will suggest techniques and check in regularly to adjust the plan so it stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to get consistent help around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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