About Safiya
Safiya Telesford is a licensed mental health counselor who has practiced for eight years. She brings a warm, direct approach to sessions and focuses on anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and depression. Safiya aims to make conversations feel clear and manageable for people who are worried and need practical help.
She uses familiar, evidence-based methods to create a plan that fits each person's life. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, trying small behavior changes, and noticing patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Safiya pays attention to how relationships and attachment styles affect daily mood and anxiety. She also helps people who feel isolated or are dealing with communication problems. Seasonal Affective Disorder and challenges around self-love are common topics she addresses.
Her work often centers on building emotional resilience and steady routines that support mood and energy. Safiya favors collaborative work. She partners with each person to set clear goals and track progress week to week.
Expect practical tools paired with regular reflection about what’s working and what needs adjusting. Her style is respectful and strengths-focused. She aims to help people notice their own resources while learning concrete skills to manage anxiety and low mood.
Sessions are offered from New Jersey and conducted in English using a mix of conversation and skill practice.
Therapy approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It teaches skills to accept feelings rather than fight them and to move toward things that matter despite anxiety or low mood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep anxiety and depression active. It uses clear, practical exercises such as thought records and behavioral experiments that work well in remote sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and emotional reactions. It can help people understand why certain situations trigger worry or withdrawal and build healthier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routines and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made based on what helps most, with a focus on practical changes and measurable progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility that can make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing skill coaching between sessions. These formats let people work at their own pace and keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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