About Kayla
Kayla Fruetel is a Florida-based licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationships. She supports clients working through self-esteem, motivation, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to intimacy or identity. Kayla speaks English and draws on eight years of clinical experience to guide practical next steps.
Kayla centers the person in the room. She treats people as experts in their own stories and focuses on building on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions include listening, feedback, and hands-on tools clients can try between meetings. Her work blends straightforward techniques with mindfulness and skill-building. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotion regulation and coping during intense moments. Motivational Interviewing is often used when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. Client-Centered Therapy shapes the relationship so clients guide the pace and focus.
Narrative approaches help people make sense of hard experiences, including trauma and long-term patterns. Kayla has helped people facing addictions, bipolar challenges, grief from life changes, and loneliness. She also focuses on guilt, shame, and issues common to young adults.
Her aim is to help clients build clearer goals and practical ways to reach them.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Kayla commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during life transitions. DBT offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are useful when feelings feel intense or overwhelming.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to shape the way sessions unfold, making sure the client's priorities guide each meeting. Together the therapist and client decide which approach feels most useful and adjust as goals change. This collaborative process helps match methods to each person's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat work well for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English