About LaShayla
Dr. LaShayla Dyer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and grief. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps.
Many come for help with sleep problems, parenting strain, or feeling stuck during life changes. She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort priorities and find manageable next steps. Dr.
Dyer works from a strengths perspective and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Emotionally-Focused and Gottman-informed ideas shape how she approaches relationship and intimacy struggles. With 11 years of clinical experience, she has supported people through trauma, depression, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes helping those facing adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and blended family concerns. She also addresses attachment problems, codependency, commitment and communication difficulties. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Dr. Dyer uses a collaborative, client-centered style that blends practical skills with attention to feelings. She emphasizes small, doable changes that fit daily life.
People who choose her often want clear tools for anxiety, better communication in close relationships, or help adjusting to a big life event. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and build steadier routines and responses.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take action even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and committing to values-based steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that worsen anxiety or mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports people in identifying and expressing vulnerable emotions to strengthen close relationships and repair disconnection.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods over time. Clients shape the work by saying what helps and what feels off, and the therapist combines skill-building with attention to underlying emotions.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match a person’s routine. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and relationship sessions. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and practicing new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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