About Skyla
Skyla Hammond is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii who focuses on practical help for anxiety and related concerns. She keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. She listens and helps people find steps they can try between meetings.
She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused ideas offer short exercises and focused goals people can use right away.
Background and approach
Skyla has five years of counseling experience. Her past work included supporting people with serious mental illness, which shaped how she stays calm and direct in stressful situations. That background informs how she supports people facing trauma, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions often include breathing and relaxation practices, problem-solving for sleep or parenting strain, and step-by-step planning for career or life transitions. She also supports people dealing with anger, intimacy issues, self-esteem, ADHD, and aging-related concerns. Skyla aims to create a nonjudgmental space that respects personal values.
She works collaboratively to set simple goals and track progress. People who want practical tools and steady encouragement may find her style fits their needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's lead. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist respond to what matters most and tailor the pace and topics to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and tries small experiments to change them. In remote sessions CBT can include homework, thought records, and stepwise behavior changes that people report back on during video, phone, or messaging check-ins.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice the body and thoughts with less reactivity. These techniques can be practiced briefly between sessions and reviewed over chat or in short phone calls to build steady habit and relief.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to find which approaches fit needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, sharing short updates, homework, or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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