About Kala
Kala Tamayo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and encourages small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier days. Kala aims for practical tools clients can use between sessions to manage emotions and daily demands.
Kala uses a blend of person-focused and skill-based methods. She listens first, then helps people notice thought patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Together they try out coping strategies that fit the client’s daily life, whether that means breathing and attention practices or short behavioral experiments. Her approach emphasizes collaboration and real-world change. Sessions often include setting simple goals, checking progress, and adjusting strategies.
Clients leave with clear ideas to try before the next meeting. Kala has eight years of professional experience in counseling work in Mississippi. Her experience includes helping people with bipolar disorder, panic and mood challenges, and struggles with self-worth and relationships.
She also supports those coping with grief, life transitions, parenting stress, and ADHD-related challenges. People who choose Kala can expect a steady, practical style. She focuses on what’s useful right now while building longer-term skills.
Conversations are straightforward, and the pace is set by each person’s needs.
How Kala’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. Kala uses this approach to help people speak openly, feel heard, and set goals that matter to them. It’s useful for anyone who needs a steady, supportive conversation about tough feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. Kala uses simple CBT techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and reduce anxiety and low mood. This can be helpful for panic, social anxiety, and ADHD-related patterns that interfere with daily tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kala collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She will adjust techniques over time based on what helps and what doesn’t.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls work well when a face-to-face feel matters, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try strategies between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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