About Kayla
Kayla Luu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, and life changes. She practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English and Vietnamese. Kayla draws on both her clinical background and personal experience as a parent to offer straightforward, practical support.
She completed a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Florida State University in 2016 and has worked in community mental health, schools, and adult care settings.
Background and approach
Earlier in her career she spent substantial time supporting children and adolescents in foster-care and residential settings, which shaped her understanding of attachment and family dynamics. Kayla blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment strategies, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills that people can use between meetings. She often helps with parenting stress, blended family issues, communication problems, and caregiver strain. Practical concerns such as relationship patterns, career direction, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and feelings of emptiness or shame are within her scope.
She also addresses immigration-related stress, fatherhood issues, and life purpose questions. Her style is warm, direct, and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on helping clients identify what matters to them and move toward it. Outside of work she is Vietnamese-American, a wife and mother of four, and enjoys reading, painting, and time outdoors.
Kayla provides services under the Florida LCSW license FL LCSW SW17157 and the Arizona LCSW license LCSW-22176.
Approaches That Fit into Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily routines. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help people notice reactions and choose how to respond instead of reacting automatically.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that match the person’s needs and adjust course when something doesn’t fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief coaching-style support into a busy day. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese