About Kay
Kay Ibarra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nearly three decades of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping clients find more ease and satisfaction in daily life.
Kay began practicing in 1992 and has worked across several states before settling in Georgia. She has experience in community behavioral health and independent practice, and she also served as a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor while in Georgia.
Background and approach
That mix of settings shaped a practical style focused on what helps most in everyday life. She uses a range of methods that match each person's needs. Sessions often include straightforward cognitive work, mindfulness skills, and values-based tools to manage worry and build steadiness.
Kay also draws from emotion-focused ideas to improve communication and connection when relationships are strained. Many clients come with trauma, grief, low self-esteem, or co-occurring concerns such as addiction and bipolar disorder. Kay works step-by-step to reduce overwhelm and teach skills that can be used between sessions.
She pays close attention to the issues a person brings and adapts the work accordingly. When the COVID pandemic shifted practice patterns, Kay moved to online care and found it made scheduling easier for many people. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Kay Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite uncomfortable feelings; it is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical exercises to reduce worry and depressive symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving how people express needs and connect, which can help with relationship and communication struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kay treats therapy as a collaborative process and will talk with clients about which methods feel most useful. Together they identify goals and try approaches that match the person's needs and preferences, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can support brief check-ins and skill practice, and messaging is helpful for ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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