About Swiyah
Swiyah Whittington is a licensed mental health professional in Delaware. She holds the LPC-MH credential and brings three years of clinical experience to her practice. She focuses on anxiety alongside stress, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression.
Swiyah draws on approaches that help people notice thoughts and make values-based choices. She often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach practical skills for managing worry and mood.
Background and approach
Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas guide work on relationship patterns and repairing hurt in close connections. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She aims to make the room feel open so clients can say what they need to say without judgment.
Practical tools and short exercises are paired with time to reflect on feelings and relationship patterns. Swiyah also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, body image concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, dissociation, and other related struggles. She offers ways to reduce reactivity, build safer connections, and strengthen coping skills.
Her background includes long-term experience in the mental health field before beginning clinical practice. That earlier work informs how she approaches motivation, trust, and finding direction. Swiyah encourages small steps and collaborative planning to move toward clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Swiyah uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. ACT often helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of daily life. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT gives concrete skills for managing symptoms and testing assumptions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing approaches or adjusting techniques over time based on what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation from home, while phone calls can work better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief, written touchpoints between sessions or a different way to process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to access care from wherever the client is located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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