About Kayla
Kayla Sterling is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 11 years of experience to her practice. She works with adults on worries like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. Kayla also helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, body image concerns, ADHD, and trauma-related issues.
Before moving into independent practice she spent years in community mental health settings. That work gave her experience with many diagnoses and life stages.
Background and approach
She uses that background to tailor care to each person's needs rather than rely on one fixed method. Her style is warm and inviting. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and honest reflection.
Kayla values listening closely and offering strategies that fit daily life, such as ways to manage strong emotions or rebuild trust after loss. She draws on several approaches to shape treatment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in choosing actions that align with their values. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas guide how she attends to relationships and individual strengths. Kayla aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that feels manageable.
She encourages steady progress and uses feedback to adjust the work. If someone wants a therapist who prioritizes practical tools and compassionate listening, Kayla offers that steady, experience-based support.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation to pursue meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and coping with daily stressors. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how relationships shape emotions and responses, and it can help people improve connection, trust, and emotional safety in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods that fit the client’s needs, and adjust plans together. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, attachment-focused work, or a mix will be most helpful for a person’s situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in during a busy day, and texting supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to use approaches like ACT and CBT in real-time moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Washington, Ohio, California, North Carolina, Colorado, Oregon
- Languages
- English