About Kwasi
Kwasi Boaitey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and problems with self-esteem. He encourages honesty and acceptance while meeting people where they are. Reaching out is framed as a chance to change direction and build new coping skills.
He uses practical conversation and steady support to identify what feels stuck. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Kwasi draws on multiple approaches to match the work to each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients can expect a calm, patient style that focuses on understanding thoughts, emotions, and behavior. He combines talk-based work with exercises to practice between sessions.
The aim is to create movement and reduce what gets in the way of daily functioning. Over seven years of practice in New York inform his approach to issues like attachment, communication problems, and mood difficulties. Kwasi also works with people facing addiction, grief, life-purpose questions, and first responder stress.
He frames clients as the experts on their lives and holds space for honest, compassionate exploration. The work is collaborative: goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly.
Approaches for online therapy and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and committed action so clients can live toward what matters despite anxiety or stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses short exercises and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and ease symptoms like worry or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. This is a collaborative effort where methods can shift as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates and use brief strategies between appointments, which helps keep momentum between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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