Bahtyah Benyahmeen
Healing from trauma with steady, skill-based care
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bahtyah
Bahtyah Benyahmeen is a licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience helping people carry hard things more lightly. She offers steady, paced care that respects each person’s nervous system and lived experience. Her work often centers on trauma, identity questions, and becoming more forgiving of oneself.
Bahtyah uses concrete skills and practical strategies during sessions. She draws from trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy techniques. Sessions include skill building for emotional regulation, coping with life changes, and improving day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
She brings an affirming, culturally aware perspective rooted in her identity as a queer, Black, cisgender woman. That outlook shapes how she listens and responds, especially around issues of identity, gender dysphoria, and multicultural concerns. Her practice addresses a range of concerns including LGBT matters, family and parenting issues, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger Syndrome, communication problems, dissociation, panic, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault, and women’s issues. Bahtyah works with children and adolescents who have trauma histories or behavioral struggles at home or school, as well as high-functioning adults and professionals facing developmental or complex trauma.
She also supports first responders with work stress and executive-functioning challenges. Sessions are offered in English and provided remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for clients in Florida. Her license is FL LCSW SW23077.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Bahtyah commonly uses trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. It is useful for anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy strategies to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and personal preferences, then try techniques that match those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is or isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. These formats allow for regular check-ins and skill practice from home, which can be easier for busy families or people with demanding schedules. Many clients appreciate the flexibility to choose the method that fits their routine and comfort level.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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