About Zaya
Zaya Kuykendall is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people find balance when life feels overwhelming. She draws on 16 years in the helping field to guide clients toward clearer priorities and steadier emotions. Zaya aims to help people reconnect with themselves and build practical steps forward.
She takes a collaborative approach. Sessions focus on identifying feelings, naming obstacles, and setting small, realistic goals. Zaya encourages openness and honesty and offers supportive feedback to help clients move past roadblocks.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes personal strengths and completing unfinished business that keeps people stuck. She uses a mix of approaches with influences from Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy to help people increase self-awareness and problem-solve. Those methods are applied in a straightforward, practical way during sessions.
Over her career she has gained experience in areas including domestic violence, child development and parenting, familial discord, women’s issues, and substance abuse. She has provided individual, group, family, couples, and e-therapy services at different times in her work. Zaya earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling.
She holds the credentials LMHC and LPCC and practices in California. Her style is calm, practical, and encouraging, aimed at helping clients stay on their life path and regain a sense of control.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Gestalt-influenced work focuses on the present moment and helps people notice patterns in feelings and behavior. In practice this can look like naming what comes up in a session and trying small experiments to see what changes.Motivational interviewing is a way of talking that strengthens a person’s own reasons for change. It helps with ambivalence about substance use, habits, or other life adjustments by exploring values and small next steps.
Solution-focused therapy centers on practical, short-term goal setting and building on what already works. Sessions often concentrate on tiny changes that add up into meaningful progress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust methods over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, have a shorter check-in without video, or use messaging for ongoing reflections between appointments. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver consistent care while adapting pace and contact style to each person’s life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Utah
- Languages
- English
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