About Kayla
Kayla Daniels is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She supports concerns related to trauma and abuse, intimacy and relationship struggles, sleep problems, parenting stress, and feelings of emptiness or low self-esteem. Kayla brings a calm, direct approach that aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical.
She practices in Wisconsin and has ten years of experience in social work, with five years focused on providing therapy.
Background and approach
Kayla uses straightforward language and a strengths-based, client-centered style. She aims to work alongside each person rather than giving one-size-fits-all directions. In sessions she combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with mindfulness and solution-focused methods.
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and build momentum. Conversations move toward concrete steps, coping tools, and small changes that fit daily life. Kayla often helps people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family concerns, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.
She also supports those coping with mood disorders, ADHD, career strain, and multicultural or veteran-related issues. Her work attends to both immediate problems and longer-term patterns. Her aim is to make therapy practical and compassionate.
Kayla partners with people to set clear goals, try manageable experiments between sessions, and track what helps. She encourages collaboration and adapts methods to suit each person’s needs and pace.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and collaboration. It helps people feel heard and supports them in setting their own goals and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and manage mood or anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kayla will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Work is collaborative - methods can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text messaging to match different routines and comforts. Video lets for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when a shorter conversation is needed. Messaging and live chat offer flexibility for quick reflections or ongoing support between longer sessions.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Kayla focus on?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her background and experience?
Where is Kayla licensed and located?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats does she offer?
How are costs and payment arranged?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English