About LaRaye
LaRaye Lyles is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of experience. She offers a calm, respectful approach for people dealing with attention and focus difficulties, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, helping clients make practical changes that fit daily life.
LaRaye adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs instead of using one set method. She listens for what matters most and suggests small, doable steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving concentration, building confidence, and easing the strain that comes from caregiving or workplace burnout. Her background includes long-term clinical work in California supporting a wide range of concerns. That experience informs how she notices patterns in relationships, attachment, and family of origin issues.
She also addresses blended family challenges, communication problems, and separation or divorce stressors. LaRaye brings attention to social and cultural factors that affect identity and well-being, including multicultural concerns, prejudice, and gender dysphoria. She supports people navigating polyamory or non-monogamous relationships and those exploring life purpose or young adult transitions.
Therapy with her moves at a practical pace. Clients can expect clear goals, regular check-ins, and tools to try between meetings. LaRaye encourages people to be curious about change and to celebrate small gains along the way.
Approaches that help with focus, identity, and burnout
LaRaye uses evidence-based techniques that translate well to online work. One common approach focuses on building practical skills for concentration and daily routines. That involves breaking tasks into small steps, practicing time management tactics, and tracking progress to improve focus and follow-through. Another approach targets relationship and attachment patterns by identifying interaction cycles and trying new ways to communicate. This helps with communication problems, blended family dynamics, and issues stemming from family of origin.Figuring out which method fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan over time. Clients are invited to give feedback each session so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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