About Tkeyah
Tkeyah Whaley offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of practice based in New York. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier and clearer about next steps.
She listens first, then helps set small, practical goals. Conversations are shaped to match what each person needs. Tkeyah focuses on building trust and helping people notice patterns that keep them stuck, like avoidance, impulsivity, or harsh self-talk.
Background and approach
Her work covers many concerns including depression, grief, addiction, intimacy-related issues, bipolar mood concerns, parenting stress, and career strain. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, family of origin problems, codependency, and challenges related to kink and alternative sex culture. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she moves at a pace the person can tolerate.
Tkeyah draws from several ways of working to fit each person. She uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the individual. She applies cognitive behavioral ideas to spot thinking patterns and DBT strategies when emotions feel overwhelming.
Motivational interviewing helps when people are unsure about change. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Tkeyah tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation and goals.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
How these approaches guide online therapy
Tkeyah combines client-centered listening with techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make small, useful changes. Client-centered work means the conversation follows what matters most to the person, giving space to tell their story. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out different ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel intense or overwhelming. DBT offers concrete tools for managing strong feelings and improving how someone responds in tense moments. Choosing which approach to emphasize is a shared decision - the therapist and client work together to find what fits current goals and comfort levels.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face connection when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be easier when a quieter, less visual check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or brief check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and support steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English