About Taylen
Taylen Gilden is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and grief. She also supports clients facing trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, career shifts, and issues around self-esteem and sexuality. She keeps sessions direct and hopeful.
Taylen focuses on listening to each person’s story and finding realistic steps forward. She aims to identify what matters most to the client and then build small, usable changes that match those values.
Background and approach
Her work draws from several approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotionally focused methods for relationship concerns. She blends these models to suit what a person needs in the moment rather than following one fixed plan. Before practicing as an LMHC she completed a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy.
She has three years of experience working with individual concerns and relationship patterns. That background informs how she balances emotion-focused work with practical skills. Taylen describes therapy as a place to find renewed hope and then take realistic steps forward.
Sessions aim to make space for honest feeling and then translate insight into action. She works collaboratively and helps clients move from feeling stuck toward the changes they want to make.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick actions that match their values. This can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by clarifying what matters and practicing small changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills for stress, panic, and low mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and understand their emotional reactions and the patterns that show up in close relationships. It is useful when people want to improve communication, repair connection, or work through intimacy-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the person and situation. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English