Fay Callam

Fay Callam uses a person-centered approach to help people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, and career concerns. She is Fay Callam, LICSW, LCSW, and she brings 35 years of clinical experience to her practice in Alaska. Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she focuses on what the client wants to work on.

She commonly helps people who have experienced trauma, including adverse childhood experiences, and the mood or relationship challenges that can follow. Sessions often address depression, grief, self-harm thoughts, bipolar concerns, parenting strain, and changes in life or work. Fay pays attention to cultural background and seasonal mood effects like SAD.

In the room she emphasizes the client’s control over goals and pacing. She uses client-centered methods and draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing when they fit the person’s needs. Treatment is collaborative and practical.

Fay’s long experience means she has worked across many problem areas and life stages. She supports people who want to improve boundaries, manage anger, and rebuild self-esteem. Her work attends to safety while honoring each person’s right to make choices.

People meet her in Alaska and sessions are held in English. International clients are also accepted, and interested people should confirm session options when they start the intake process.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Fay often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and letting the client set goals and pace. This approach helps people who need space to talk through values, decisions, or relationship boundaries. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and introduces practical exercises to change them; this can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

EMDR is another method Fay may draw on for trauma-related symptoms; it uses structured processing to reduce the intensity of distress tied to past events and can be helpful when trauma memories interfere with daily life. Fay combines these methods in a collaborative way and checks in with each person to find what fits.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Fay will work with clients to choose methods based on their goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. That may mean trying different techniques and adjusting over time so the work feels useful.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoid being on camera when that helps. Licensed professionals, including therapists, can adapt client-centered, CBT, and EMDR techniques to virtual settings to support progress without promising specific outcomes.