About Zaya
Zaya Kuykendall is a licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or in need of a reset. Her work focuses on reconnecting clients with their priorities and building steady routines that support daily life.
She listens and helps people identify emotions and roadblocks. Zaya uses a collaborative style so clients share ideas and choose practical next steps together. She encourages openness and straightforward conversation to create a sense of stability during hard moments.
Background and approach
Her approach blends Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. That mix shapes sessions around strengths, short-term goals, and clearer awareness of feelings. Zaya offers support and feedback aimed at closing unfinished business and lowering emotional reactivity.
Over the years she developed experience in domestic violence, child development and parenting, familial discord, women’s issues, and substance abuse. She brings that background into work with adults to address anxiety, stress, relationship strain, addictions, grief, mood concerns, and life transitions. Sessions emphasize building practical skills for daily life.
Zaya helps people regulate emotions, set priorities, and plan manageable steps forward. The goal is to help clients find more balance and a stronger sense of calm on their own journey.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Gestalt therapy focuses on increasing awareness of thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in the moment. Online sessions use conversation and gentle exercises to help people notice patterns and make different choices, often useful for anxiety and relationship concerns.Motivational interviewing is a collaborative method that helps people resolve mixed feelings and strengthen their own reasons for change. It works well for habits, addictions, and steps toward new goals by focusing on a person’s values and small next moves.
Solution-focused work centers on practical steps and short-term goals. Sessions identify what is already working, then build manageable plans to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor techniques together so therapy fits the individual.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or coaching between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Utah
- Languages
- English
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