About Jaylea
Jaylea Black is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who combines practical strategies with compassionate listening. She uses approaches like cognitive-behavioral techniques and EMDR to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Jaylea mentions experience supporting people through grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and concerns related to LGBT identity.
She has five years of clinical experience and holds licenses in Kansas and Colorado. Jaylea draws on a mix of methods so sessions match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Conversations are warm and interactive, not rushed, and focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings. Jaylea works with people coping with life changes, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and trauma. She also addresses career worries, anger, and issues around life purpose and meaning.
When a history of trauma is present, she may include EMDR alongside talk-based skills to reduce distress. Her sessions aim to reduce symptoms and build everyday coping skills. Jaylea uses mindfulness and solution-focused steps to break problems into manageable goals.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or are working on substance use or other addiction concerns. The first meeting is a consult to set expectations and decide on goals. Jaylea helps craft a plan that fits schedules and personal preferences.
She encourages active collaboration so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Jaylea commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy and EMDR alongside mindfulness work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR is an approach used to reduce distress linked to traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Jaylea will discuss goals and preferences and suggest options that match the person's situation. Together they set short-term targets and decide whether to focus on skills practice, trauma processing, or both over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coping prompts, or homework reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care when schedules or mobility are limited.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Colorado
- Languages
- English