About Safiya
Safiya Telesford is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She has eight years of clinical experience and practices in New Jersey as an LMHC and an LPC. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel understandable and useful from the first session.
Safiya focuses on practical skills and exploration. She uses proven methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and try new habits.
How Safiya works
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to support people in living by their values, and attachment-based work to look at how early connections shape current relationships. Sessions often include emotion regulation tools and communication strategies for everyday life. Safiya aims for a collaborative process where clients set goals and test small changes between sessions.
She emphasizes self-compassion and addressing isolation and seasonal mood shifts when they come up. Therapy with her blends direct goal work and gentle reflection. Expect clear feedback, short skills practice, and space to talk through painful experiences.
The overall focus is on building resilience and deeper self-understanding, one step at a time. Safiya works with concerns such as communication problems, loneliness, self-love, and women’s issues alongside stress and anxiety. She offers sessions through a range of online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
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What Safiya works with
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Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and motivational blocks. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication; it can be helpful when people feel stuck by relationship dynamics or loneliness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, mixing approaches to address both symptoms and the underlying patterns that keep them in place.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, between-session support, or a way to process thoughts without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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