About MaKayla
MaKayla Walker is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. She brings a warm, collaborative style to sessions and focuses on practical steps that clients can use between meetings. She emphasizes down-to-earth conversation and gentle challenge.
Sessions aim to build on existing strengths and uncover small changes that make daily life easier. MaKayla frames goals with clear steps so progress feels tangible. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and increase meaningful action.
Background and approach
She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people stuck in ambivalence and Solution-Focused Therapy to identify immediate next steps. MaKayla has three years of clinical experience and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials, listed as IL LCSW and MN LICSW. She practices from Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
Common topics she works on include self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, codependency, communication problems, control issues, and feelings of guilt or shame. She also supports people dealing with isolation, self-harm thoughts, and building self-love. Her sessions mix conversation with practical homework and skill-building.
She encourages clients to try short experiments between sessions and to bring real-life challenges back into therapy for review.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of things that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce worry, improve mood, and handle relationship stress. Motivational Interviewing is a short-term approach that helps with ambivalence and moving toward change through guided conversation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust based on what fits best. Goals, preferences, and everyday demands all shape which techniques are tried and kept.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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