About Theyazan
Theyazan Kohaif is a licensed social worker with ten years of clinical experience. He holds an LMSW and an LCSW and practices in Michigan while working with clients from other states and countries. He focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain.
He spends sessions listening carefully and helping people sort out what matters most to them. Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and goals. He helps clients build practical tools for coping, managing mood, and improving self-esteem.
Background and approach
Kohaif has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, as well as those navigating grief and major life changes. He also supports those dealing with addiction, bipolar symptoms, and anger challenges. His work includes helping people with intimacy-related issues and parenting strain.
Beyond those areas, he addresses concerns such as attachment and abandonment, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and questions around sexuality and kink. He adapts his approach for people managing neurodiversity, aging issues, or blended family dynamics. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Evidence-based techniques focus on practical change. One common approach uses structured conversations to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This helps people reduce worry and build healthier habits for everyday situations.Another approach centers on processing past hurts and trauma in a paced way so people feel less overwhelmed by painful memories. It emphasizes grounding skills, paced exposure to difficult topics, and building tools to manage strong emotions during and between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques to your goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps you focus. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when you want to write out thoughts instead of speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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