About Tilaya
Tilaya Bradford-Hollins is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical support for coping with life changes and building clearer communication. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel useful and doable.
Tilaya draws on body-aware somatic methods alongside conversational therapies to help people feel more grounded in their daily lives. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to pinpoint unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions also reflect attachment-informed thinking to address relational patterns that repeat over time. In sessions she emphasizes simple tools people can use between meetings, like noticing bodily signals, naming thoughts, and practicing short behavioral experiments. She encourages small steps that fit into busy lives rather than big, sudden changes.
Communication skills and self-compassion are frequent focuses in her work. Tilaya has eleven years of experience as a clinician in Illinois and holds the LCSW credential. She works with adults to process trauma and improve everyday functioning.
Conversations tend to be calm, practical, and geared toward clear goals. People often leave feeling they have a clearer path forward and concrete coping strategies. The approach balances talking with body-based awareness to help shift how stress and anxiety show up day to day.
Her aim is to help each person find what actually works for them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Tilaya uses somatic work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, such as tension or shallow breathing, and then practices small grounding techniques to change those sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify values and encourage committed steps toward them, even when uncomfortable thoughts appear. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on identifying repetitive relationship patterns and finding new ways to connect and communicate.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work together with each person to try methods that match their goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as progress is made. The work is paced to each person's needs and preference for body-based or talk-focused exercises.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to practice techniques in real-life moments and to touch base between sessions. The variety of formats helps people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English