About Kayla
Kayla Davis is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 14 years of experience to her practice. She trained in social work at the master level and holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials. Kayla works from Hawaii and draws on a broad history of clinical roles when meeting new clients.
She began her path studying nutrition and then psychology, which led to focused work with eating concerns and broader mental health issues.
Background and approach
Graduate training deepened her exposure to cultural factors and introduced work with addictions, cancer survivors, and people with serious mental illness. Those early roles expanded into outreach with people experiencing homelessness and teens. Kayla favors straightforward, practical sessions.
She listens actively and uses supportive reflection to help people weigh options and take steps they choose. Her style highlights strengths and meets people where they are in a given moment. Clinically she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing alongside mindfulness and acceptance strategies.
Those methods are used to address stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, bipolar concerns, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Sessions with Kayla focus on clear goals and steady progress. She helps people manage symptoms, set realistic steps, and practice new ways of responding.
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Practical therapies adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking committed steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions by teaching acceptance of difficult thoughts and steady action toward goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then tests new ways of thinking and acting. It works well for anxiety, depression, mood swings, and unhelpful patterns like avoidance. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck about change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening motivation for next steps; it is often used around addictions, behavior change, and readiness for treatment.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. This process is flexible and centers the client’s preferences and life demands.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or step-by-step support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Hawaii
- Languages
- English