About Kayla
Kayla Sterling is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience. She practices from Wyoming and brings a warm, inviting style to sessions. Kayla focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, phobias, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges.
She began her career in community mental health and has worked across many settings. That background means she is familiar with anxiety disorders, bipolar conditions, substance concerns, and complex trauma.
Background and approach
Kayla uses practical tools aimed at day-to-day coping as well as deeper work on past hurt and attachment patterns. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.
Sessions are shaped to fit each person's goals rather than a fixed formula. Kayla pays particular attention to relationship and attachment issues. She helps people understand patterns that repeat in close relationships and offers steps to change those patterns.
For parents she can address parenting stress, blended family dynamics, and concerns around adoption and foster care. People who choose Kayla often want a therapist who listens without judgment and works collaboratively. She describes therapy as a partnership where small practical changes build toward bigger life shifts.
Those ready to explore healing and new ways of coping will find steady support and clear tools in her work.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. CBT is often used for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and reactions, helping people change repeating dynamics in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit your situation. You and the therapist can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and workable for you.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when a written thread better supports day-to-day coping. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Washington, Ohio, California, North Carolina, Colorado, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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