About Layla
Layla Hernandez is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Colorado. She brings ten years of experience in mental health work and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. Layla aims to make therapy approachable and practical for people who feel overwhelmed by life changes or ongoing emotional pain.
She uses clear, straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on skills people can use right away, such as breathing and grounding techniques, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and trying small behavior changes. Layla mixes mindfulness with goal-focused tools to build steady progress over time. Her background includes work in both military and civilian settings, including crisis response roles alongside first responder teams.
Layla’s training and experience inform how she supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, veteran and armed forces issues, and the stress that comes from traumatic events. Layla works with individuals facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, identity and LGBT questions, mood disorders, and complicated family-of-origin dynamics.
She adapts methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness practices to fit each person’s situation. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental. Layla values collaboration and helps people set concrete, realistic goals.
She guides each person toward practical steps they can take between sessions to feel more in control and more able to cope.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life they care about. Online ACT sessions typically include values exercises, simple behavior experiments, and practice using acceptance skills when painful feelings arise. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. In virtual CBT sessions clients learn thought-tracking, behavioral experiments, and practical tools to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness; it can be helpful for intense mood swings and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that seem to fit, and adjust the plan together based on how the work is going. Clients have a say in pacing, homework, and which skills to emphasize so the work aligns with their needs and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between appointments or use written tools when that feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Washington
- Languages
- English
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