Tayona Fraylon

Tayona Fraylon is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina who focuses on helping people navigate big changes and difficult emotions. She aims for respectful, sensitive, and compassionate conversations that match each person's situation. Tayona encourages small, practical steps that move toward a more satisfying life.

She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. Tayona helps people talk through relationship strain, grief and loss, eating concerns, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also addresses addictions, sleep problems, parenting strain, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.

Tayona adapts the pace and focus to what each person needs. Sessions often include problem-focused conversation, skill building, and planning simple experiments to try between meetings. She pays attention to past trauma and how it affects day-to-day functioning, using trauma-focused strategies when helpful.

Her work also covers attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and caregiver stress, blended family issues, and a range of personality-related challenges. Tayona listens for the practical barriers that keep people stuck and helps design small, doable shifts.

With five years of experience as an LCMHC, she supports people through transitions that disrupt routines and relationships. Tayona invites clients to start where they are and to set realistic goals together.

How Tayona’s Methods Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still move toward what matters to them. It helps when life changes make it hard to keep living by personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses clear exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related worries.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tayona will work together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.

The original biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed, or let people choose interactions that match their energy level, such as speaking without video or using step-by-step exercises during meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises to work well in remote conversation and homework between sessions.