Kayla Sterling
Calm, practical support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Wyoming, Washington, Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kayla
Kayla Sterling is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience. She practices from Wyoming and supports people facing a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, and substance issues. Kayla takes a warm, inviting approach and aims to make each person feel heard and respected.
She draws on several therapeutic methods to match the needs of the person in front of her. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
She focuses on what a client wants to change and works on clear, manageable steps toward those goals. Kayla has a solid background treating trauma and related conditions. That experience includes working with people who have anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and grief.
She also has experience addressing relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and challenges that arise in blended or adoptive families. Her style blends client-centered work with skills-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies and techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy. She emphasizes listening first, then tailoring interventions to the situation.
Therapy sessions often include skill practice, moments to reflect on feelings, and planning for real-life changes. For parents and caregivers, Kayla aims to balance practical parenting strategies with attention to emotional needs. She offers guidance around sleep and eating issues, discipline struggles, and coping with transitions.
The focus is on useful, achievable changes that fit everyday family life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that match those values. It often includes exercises to notice thoughts without getting stuck and to practice new behaviors in daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help people understand how they connect with others and learn new ways to feel safer and more connected in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kayla will collaborate with each person to pick methods that make sense for their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a skills-based tool for immediate coping, then shifting to deeper attachment work as trust and insight grow.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life. These options allow for flexible scheduling and follow-up between sessions. They also let a person practice techniques in their real environment and bring those experiences back into therapy for discussion and adjustment.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Washington, Ohio, California, North Carolina, Colorado, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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