About Theyazan
Theyazan Kohaif is a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works with adults on issues like depression, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. He offers direct, practical support focused on real-life problems and everyday coping skills.
He believes every person brings a distinct story, so he adapts conversations and plans to fit individual needs. Sessions focus on concrete steps you can use between meetings, such as coping techniques, communication strategies, and ways to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
He aims to make sessions feel straightforward and goal oriented. Over ten years he has supported people facing addictions, grief, parenting strains, intimacy issues, and major life changes. He also addresses concerns related to bipolar mood patterns, anger, and commitment worries.
Additional experience includes areas like attachment and body image challenges. Heazan uses a respectful and compassionate approach that centers the client's goals. He listens for what matters most and helps clients set achievable steps.
Progress is tracked by small, measurable changes rather than vague promises. He practices in Michigan and offers work with licensed credentials LMSW and LCSW. Sessions are available in English and can be scheduled through an online matching process.
He accepts international clients and offers multiple remote formats to fit different routines.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Theyazan commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills training and symptom reduction. One approach centers on teaching concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress so people can manage worries as they come up. Another approach emphasizes communication and behavioral strategies to address relationship strain and intimacy-related concerns; these techniques help people practice clearer boundaries and more effective conversations.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adapt methods to match the person's needs. Together the client and therapist check progress and shift techniques when necessary to keep work practical and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people read visual cues and work in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and let people send brief updates or practice new skills on the spot.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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