About Kayla
Kayla Sheffield is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Kayla aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can speak plainly about what feels hard right now.
She brings 13 years of experience across community and clinical settings. That background includes helping people manage strong emotions such as anger and grief.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, and career-related stress. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals. Conversations tend to be practical and goal-directed when useful, and open and reflective when that helps.
She uses a mix of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools and brief solution-focused steps to build clearer thinking and small, manageable changes. Kayla also works with concerns linked to aging, caregiving stress, attachment worries, autism and Asperger syndrome, and end-of-life challenges. She addresses family-related conflict, codependency, communication problems, guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
People often come to talk about purpose, forgiveness, or rebuilding confidence after loss. Kayla focuses on helping clients find concrete coping strategies and small steps toward a more steady day-to-day life. She explains options and helps people choose what fits their situation.
Using practical therapy methods online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment; it helps when someone needs a safe space to sort out feelings and make sense of hard moments. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches tools to shift unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, realistic steps and on what is already working, making it useful for people who want quick, concrete changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they will try methods that match those needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual connection, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work toward goals consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English