About Tilaya
Tilaya Bradford-Hollins is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports adults facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and big life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people build practical coping skills they can use day to day.
Tilaya uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and encourage actions that match those values. Attachment-focused work helps when past hurts affect current relationships. Tilaya helps people notice patterns that repeat and practice new ways of relating.
Dialectical behavior skills are offered for emotional regulation and managing intense feelings in the moment. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect to set clear goals, try small experiments between sessions, and build tools for coping with stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.
Progress is measured in practical changes rather than abstract theories. Tilaya brings 11 years of clinical experience in Illinois to her practice. She pays attention to cultural context and the everyday pressures people face, including caregiver stress, financial worries, and isolation.
Her work centers on helping people reconnect with self-love and move toward lives that feel more balanced and purposeful.
How her approaches work online
Tilaya often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match personal goals, which can help with anxiety and stress.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. This work helps people notice repeating behaviors, improve communication, and build healthier connections in their day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full-session conversations and exercises, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or coping prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use approaches like skills practice or values-based exercises in ways that match daily life.
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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
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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