About Raylissa
Raylissa Batten is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 18 years of experience to her counseling work in Tennessee. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, parenting pressure, and depression. Raylissa talks in plain terms and centers the person she sees, treating each situation as unique rather than one-size-fits-all.
Her approach combines tools from several evidence-informed methods. She uses skills from cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are used to help people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck in them. Client-centered methods keep the conversation grounded in a person’s own goals and strengths. Raylissa has worked in mental health for nearly two decades and has spent more than ten years providing direct counseling.
That background means she draws on many practical techniques and everyday language to make therapy useful from the first sessions. She aims to help people build simple routines and habits that reduce stress and improve mood. Sessions often focus on clear, achievable steps like changing a reaction pattern, improving communication, or setting boundaries around parenting and caregiving duties.
Raylissa supports people who want to increase motivation, handle transitions such as separation or blended family challenges, or cope with the lingering effects of attachment and abandonment wounds. She practices as a Tennessee LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and conducts work in English.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, helping people move from feeling stuck to taking practical steps toward the life they want.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people learn to accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and chronic stress because it focuses on meaningful steps rather than chasing perfect feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. It works well for managing worry and improving mood through hands-on exercises. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple awareness skills to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away, which can reduce reactivity and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan so the work fits the person’s life and needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t practical, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, or caregiving duties while still using familiar therapeutic tools and skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English