About Kafayat
Kafayat (Ayoka) Hannah is a licensed independent social worker with 18 years of practice in South Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She also supports those navigating relationship concerns, grief, and challenges tied to identity and LGBTQ experiences.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on everyday life. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, doable steps toward clearer routines and better coping.
Background and approach
Kafayat uses tools from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation and solution-focused methods to set short-term goals. Motivation-focused conversations help clients find reasons to stick with changes.
She helps with a wide range of concerns, including parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue. ADHD is listed among her focus areas, and she brings those treatment approaches into planning how to manage attention, routines, and overwhelm. Sessions can address practical problems like money stress, workplace conflicts, or adjusting to pregnancy and postpartum life.
She also supports people coping with divorce, infidelity, hospice and end-of-life worries, and seasonal mood changes. Kafayat offers services in English and accepts international clients. The aim is to create an affirming space where people can build skills, restore steadiness, and move toward goals that matter to them.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy centers conversations on the person's experience and choices, giving space for concerns to be heard and for goals to emerge from what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides practical tools for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about what they want to accomplish, try approaches that fit their goals, and adjust methods as progress unfolds. This makes it easier to focus on what helps in day-to-day life rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls can recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while allowing different ways to connect with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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