About Kayla
Kayla DeDonato is a licensed professional counselor (LPCC) in Kentucky with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and major life changes. Kayla aims to make the first step feel manageable and offers steady support through that process.
Her style is straightforward and grounded. She creates a calm space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without worrying about judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps that fit each person's life, such as coping strategies, clearer communication, and rebuilding confidence. Kayla draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. She tailors each plan to the situation, balancing short-term tools with deeper work as needed.
Progress is measured by small, concrete changes people can notice day to day. Across her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger syndrome concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. This background informs a flexible approach to complicated or overlapping issues.
Kayla encourages people to take small steps toward better functioning and greater ease. She partners with clients to set realistic goals and to try strategies that match their values and routines.
How evidence-based approaches guide online work
Kayla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with symptoms and everyday challenges. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing methods, activity pacing, and step-by-step plans to break problems into manageable tasks. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful interaction habits and trying new ways to express needs and set boundaries.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and past experiences and then try methods that fit the client's needs and preferences. If an approach isn't helping, adjustments are made together until the plan feels right.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as reducing travel time and allowing check-ins between work or caregiving responsibilities. Because the biography does not specify session types, confirm the current session options before booking to understand how meetings are scheduled and what tools are used. The focus is on finding practical ways to make therapy useful and doable within each person's routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English