About Kayla
Kayla Goldsby is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and respectful and she aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable.
She uses approaches that center the person in the room. That means listening first, then adapting methods to the situation. Sessions often involve setting clear goals and practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to help people stay grounded during hard moments. Motivational Interviewing helps clients find personal reasons to change when motivation feels low.
Kayla also draws on narrative and client-centered techniques to help people make sense of their stories. She helps clients separate painful events from their identity and reclaim preferred directions in life. Conversations cover relationship concerns, career stress, sexuality and LGBT issues, and coping with illness or chronic pain.
Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns that keep repeating. Kayla works with people who are dealing with trauma, grief, isolation, or setbacks and supports efforts to build self-love and better communication. She aims to keep sessions practical and focused on what matters to each person.
Approaches that fit your life, online
Kayla often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, panic, low mood, and many stress-related issues. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs. Together you can adjust pace, tools, and focus as you learn which ways of working feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when distance or scheduling is a challenge. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for shorter check-ins, quick coping tools, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English