Kayla Mulholland, LCSW - Therapist in California

About Kayla

Kayla Mulholland is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. Kayla speaks English and Spanish and practices in California as LCSW CA 114402.

Kayla draws on five years of clinical experience to help parents and caregivers manage everyday pressures. She uses simple, practical tools to address worry, low mood, anger, and relationship strain.

Background and approach

Sessions emphasize what families can do at home between visits. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy to build skills and new habits. She also uses solution-focused and motivational interviewing techniques to set clear steps and goals.

The work is action-oriented and aimed at realistic changes that fit family life. Kayla has worked with people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and immigration-related stress. She pays attention to how life transitions and caregiving demands affect parents' energy and wellbeing.

She helps clients identify strengths and practical strategies they can try right away. Sessions may include conversation, brief skill practice, and goal-setting. Kayla emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s values when deciding next steps.

She supports clients as they try new approaches and adjust plans based on what actually works for their family.

Therapeutic approaches and online support for families

Kayla often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change how they feel. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm during parenting moments.

She also applies acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking manageable steps toward what matters most. This approach is useful for parents facing difficult emotions or big life changes because it combines acceptance of hard feelings with clear action plans.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kayla collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and daily routines. She adjusts tools over time so strategies fit real family life.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to allow flexibility. These options make it easier to fit short check-ins, skill practice, or longer sessions into busy schedules. The mix of live conversation and messaging supports ongoing follow-through between appointments.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What issues does Kayla help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression, along with related areas like adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and pregnancy and childbirth.

What is her therapy style like?

Her style is practical and collaborative, using CBT, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to set steps and build skills.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has five years of clinical experience working with families and parents in community and clinical settings.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California with credential CA LCSW 114402 and practices in California.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted; her practice is based in California and serves clients within that context.

What session formats are available?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexible options for families.

How do sessions cost and how are they scheduled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Parenting issues
Self esteem

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 5 years
Licensed: California
Languages: English, Spanish

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