About Kayla
Kayla Luu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of experience. She holds a Master of Social Work from Florida State University. Kayla practices in Florida and communicates in both English and Vietnamese.
She spent much of her early career supporting people in community mental health, schools, and adult services. Before graduate school she worked with children and adolescents in foster-care transition and residential settings, which shaped her practical understanding of family and developmental stressors.
Background and approach
Kayla uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness practices, and client-centered conversation to help people name problems and try new ways of coping. Sessions focus on real-life steps rather than abstract theory.
She helps people with anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, self-esteem, and life changes. Other areas she addresses include attachment or abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, blended family issues, immigration-related strain, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. In session Kayla aims to create a warm, accepting space where people feel heard and respected.
She works collaboratively to set goals and to build practical tools for daily life. Outside of work she is a wife and mother of four and enjoys reading, painting, and spending time outdoors.
How Kayla’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening-based relationship where the therapist reflects and supports the person’s own process and goals.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s life and adjust them over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and learning new skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and live chat allow short check-ins, coaching-style support, or homework follow-up between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
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