I believe that we are constantly moving through life one transition after another. Challenges may arise during life transitions that require a certain degree of assistance. Creating a safe place where clients feel comfortable sharing free of judgment is a top priority. It is my goal to guide my clients to identify the resources and strengths they possess which may have been overlooked and underutilized. Together we can work towards achieving the goals you desire.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I aim to support you as we work through trauma, negative thoughts, work/school stress, relationship issues, mental disorders, and life challenges. I'm committed to providing a safe space for you to open up and feel comfortable. As we build our therapeutic relationship we will find workable solutions, set health boundaries and identify strengths. I aim to support you as we work through trauma, negative thoughts, work/school stress, relationship issues, mental disorders, and life challenges. I'm committed to providing a safe space for you to open up and feel comfortable. As we build our therapeutic relationship we will find workable solutions, set health boundaries, and identify strengths.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked as a therapist for the past 4 years, I've been able to support plenty of individuals through life changes and hardships. With my clients, we create the best treatment for you! My goal is to help each client to learn how to manage their mental health.
About Keyana Graham
Appointments
Virtual
My treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT interventions provide a simple way of understanding challenging situations and problematic reactions to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy emphasizes three main components implicated in psychological problems: thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Working with clients in CBT therapy sessions, all three elements are interwoven through difficult issues and feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy exercises are designed to intervene on all three components simultaneously. For instance, when uncontrollable worry is the problem, CBT exercises can help people identify more effective and grounded thoughts, which lessens anxiety. In turn, reduced anxiety makes it easier to engage in skillful behavior to address the triggering problematic situation actively.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness skills are considered the core component of improved emotion regulation. DBT mindfulness is taught and reviewed throughout the treatment, and mindfulness begins each skills training session. This is because all of the other emotion regulation skills in DBT hinge on being able to practice DBT mindfulness. Despite this central position of DBT mindfulness among DBT skills, its function to reduce emotional sensitivity and regulate emotions is often misunderstood.
Grief Therapy
Most people will experience loss at some point in their lives. Bereavement and grief encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger. Adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another. It often depends on a person’s background, beliefs, and relationship to what was lost. Bereavement and grief encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger. Adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another. It often depends on a person’s background, beliefs, and relationship to what was lost.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy is one tool that can help us learn to recognize and understand our thought and feeling patterns, to create new, more effective patterns. Mindfulness is a meditation that focuses on being aware of any sensations and feelings in the present moment without interpretation or judgment. It is a compassionate type of awareness with a sense of knowing what is happening in the external and internal world as it is happening.
Strength-Based
The strength-based approach focuses on the positive attributes of a person or a group, rather than the negative. Strength-based approaches to therapy build on clients’ inner strengths instead of trying to fix weaknesses or deficits. Everyone has character strengths, and core patterns of thinking and behaving that are positive and, when used intentionally, benefit the individual and those around them.
