About Kala
Kala Tamayo, LPC, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She aims to make the first step easier by creating a calm, open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Her approach is warm and practical for people looking for clearer coping tools and steadier mood management.
Kala spends time listening so she can understand what matters most to each person. She guides clients toward realistic, doable changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations often include simple skills for handling panic, managing mood shifts, and building self-esteem. Her background includes eight years of counseling work in Mississippi. That experience has involved a range of concerns from depression and bipolar mood challenges to parenting stress and relationship communication problems.
She also supports people dealing with grief, isolation, and issues related to identity and LGBT concerns. Kala uses approaches that center the client's experience. This means sessions focus on what the client wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Techniques may include looking at unhelpful thoughts, learning mindfulness practices, and using motivational strategies to support lasting change. Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative. Kala helps clients set concrete goals, try new behaviors between meetings, and track what works.
The overall tone is encouraging and practical, with an emphasis on small steps that build confidence over time.
How Kala’s Approaches Work Online
Kala uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, low mood, and problems that come from repetitive negative thinking. It focuses on practical exercises to try between sessions.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which means the sessions follow the client's priorities and pace. This approach emphasizes understanding, active listening, and working together to set goals that feel meaningful to the client.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kala discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as needed. That collaborative planning helps decide whether to emphasize skill work, mindfulness practices, motivation strategies, or a mix of techniques.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can help people who prefer writing, need quick coping reminders, or want to spread support across the week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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