Tkeyah Whaley, LCSW

Tkeyah Whaley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain. She writes short, practical goals with clients and focuses on clear steps to feel better. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people move forward one step at a time.

With six years of professional experience in New York, she draws on cognitive behavioral ideas alongside attachment-focused and client-centered work. Sessions aim to identify unhelpful thinking and behaviors, then practice different ways of responding. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when helpful.

Common concerns she supports include trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, addiction-related issues, grief, intimacy questions, and parenting stress. Additional areas of focus are abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and navigating kink and alternative sex culture. She also addresses anger, impulsivity, infidelity, and family of origin problems.

Tkeyah emphasizes respectful, sensitive care and builds treatment plans around each person's needs and goals. Conversations in sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what the person can manage. She encourages small, achievable changes and checks progress regularly.

Clients can expect practical tools, compassionate listening, and clear steps to practice between sessions. The goal is to help people feel more able to handle daily stresses and move toward the life they want.

Approach and access: evidence-based methods online

Many sessions draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior and trying different actions to change how you feel. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people build safer ways to relate. Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals, using listening and reflection to help someone find their own solutions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most useful. From that conversation she tailors a plan that may blend methods and adjusts as progress is made.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is better. Live chat and text messaging can provide shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.