About Folayan
Folayan Williams is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with individuals who are struggling with self-esteem, motivation, grief, trauma, addiction, and the day-to-day pressures of life. Her style is direct and warm and she focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to name what feels stuck and try new ways of handling it. Folayan emphasizes collaboration and clear goals so progress can be tracked in tangible ways. Her approach draws on client-centered ideas, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.
That means she listens first, then helps people test different thoughts and behaviors, and teaches coping skills for intense emotions. She uses those methods to help with anxiety, mood shifts, trauma reactions, and relationship patterns. Folayan also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, workplace challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She addresses specific issues like abandonment, communication problems, guilt, and impulsivity in practical, step-by-step ways. Sessions often include skill practice and planning for real-life situations. People who choose to work with her get straightforward feedback, tools they can use daily, and a focus on building self-compassion.
Her goal is to help clients find clearer choices and more satisfying ways of living.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It emphasizes respect for the client's perspective and helps people identify their own goals and solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses simple experiments and practice to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and reducing impulsive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful. This collaborative process helps find techniques that fit your life and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how you meet. Video calls let you have something close to an in-person meeting. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in the moments they matter most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English