Tayona Fraylon, LCMHC

Tayona Fraylon is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who offers a calm, respectful approach to therapy. She focuses on practical steps and steady support for people facing relationship strain, grief, eating concerns, anger, depression, anxiety, and life changes. Tayona emphasizes compassion and clear communication in sessions.

She uses techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and trauma-focused therapy. In practice that means she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, build small skills for managing emotions, and clarify personal values to guide change. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals rather than a fixed script.

Tayona has five years of clinical experience in North Carolina and brings that background to problems like chronic pain, caregiver stress, body image, addiction-related concerns, and issues tied to attachment or abandonment. She can help with mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and disruptive mood challenges, and with trauma-related symptoms.

Her style is collaborative: she will listen, offer strategies you can try between sessions, and adjust the plan as needs shift. She encourages realistic steps that fit everyday life. For people dealing with medical or long-term health conditions, she can help with coping strategies and emotional responses that arise alongside those challenges.

To begin, Tayona asks clients to describe what they want to change and what has helped in the past. From there she works with each person to set clear, achievable goals and to track progress over time.

How Tayona’s approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for relationship stress, chronic illness adjustment, and coping with grief. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing different ways of behaving to change mood and functioning; it often includes concrete exercises to try between sessions and can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to reduce intense reactions and improve relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tayona will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. She listens to what has worked before and adapts techniques so they feel practical and doable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online therapy makes it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduces travel time, and lets them continue care when coping with health issues or mobility limits. Others like online sessions because they can focus on skill practice, quick check-ins, or structured exercises without needing extra travel time. Tayona aims to make therapy work around a client's routine and to suggest approaches that can be practiced between appointments.