About Kayla
Kayla Mulholland is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Kayla centers her work on each person's strengths and goals and helps them find clearer ways forward.
She has five years of clinical experience working in California and with immigrant communities. Her background includes community mental health and work with foster care and parent-child situations.
Background and approach
That experience shaped how she supports people through trauma, parenting strain, and mood challenges. Kayla uses simple, skill-based methods in sessions. She draws on approaches that teach new ways of thinking and acting, and she includes mindfulness practices to help people feel calmer in the moment.
Sessions tend to focus on small, achievable changes that add up over time. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, communication problems, and immigration-related stress. Kayla aims to reduce shame around seeking help and to build practical coping tools for day-to-day life.
People come to Kayla for help with relationship friction, anger, compassion fatigue, pregnancy and childbirth issues, and young adult transitions. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and works together with each person to set goals and try strategies that fit their life.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with what matters to you. It helps when anxiety or stress lead to avoidance and you want a way to move toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life transitions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily moments, which can support stress, trauma symptoms, and parenting strain.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may try different strategies and adapt over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills, while phone calls can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, ongoing problem solving, or for people who prefer typed communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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