About Twila
Twila Quaid is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from what matters to them. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps to regain joy and purpose in daily life. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make each session feel useful and understandable.
With ten years of experience, Twila draws on a holistic view of wellbeing. She looks at personal, physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual parts of life to see what might be keeping someone from moving forward.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal setting, simple homework, and experiments to try between meetings. Clients working with her may address stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD concerns, addictive behaviors, relationship or intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and bipolar-related concerns.
She also supports people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, impulsivity, questions about life purpose, seasonal affective disorder, and women’s issues. Her practice blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Narrative Therapy approaches. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and also looks at the stories they tell about themselves.
Together they test new behaviors and reframe limiting narratives to open up different choices. Twila works from New York as a licensed mental health counselor, NY LMHC and FL LMHC, and conducts sessions in English. She aims to partner with clients who want straightforward tools and gentle challenge while they work toward clearer goals.
How CBT and Narrative Therapy work online with flexible session formats
Twila uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of feeling better. CBT often includes short between-session exercises and clear steps to try, which fit well into video or phone appointments.She also uses Narrative Therapy to examine the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. That approach helps clients separate from unhelpful labels and rewrite parts of their story, which can be discussed and practiced across messaging or live chat as well as in calls.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Twila will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that match those aims. She checks in and adjusts the plan based on what is actually helping.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and exercises, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or written reflection. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy days and support continued progress across different situations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English
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