About Kayla
Kayla Luu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of professional experience. She holds the LCSW credential and practices in Florida. Kayla draws on long-term work across community mental health, schools, and adult services to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and parenting concerns.
She began her social work path after earning a Master’s degree in Social Work from Florida State University. Her early experience included work in foster-care transition settings and residential centers, which shaped her understanding of attachment, family dynamics, and trauma.
Background and approach
That background informs how she approaches complex family and identity concerns today. Kayla favors straightforward, empathetic conversations. Sessions focus on helping people name what’s hard, try practical coping strategies, and set small, doable goals.
She uses a mix of approaches so interventions match each person’s needs rather than follow a single script. Her clinical methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. These tools are used to address issues such as parenting stress, relationship and family problems, feelings of emptiness, grief, and life transitions.
Kayla speaks English and Vietnamese and brings a calm, patient presence to sessions. Outside of work she is a wife and mother of four and enjoys reading, painting, and spending time outdoors. She aims to help clients feel heard and able to move forward one step at a time.
How Kayla’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them, even when difficult feelings are present. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on warm, nonjudgmental listening and building trust so people feel understood and can explore goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers straightforward skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kayla will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of methods fits best. She checks in about goals and adjusts plans as people try different tools and notice what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people balance therapy with family, school, and work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
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