About Kyra
Kyra House is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, mood challenges, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Kyra aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk honestly about what is hard for them.
She uses straightforward conversations and listening to understand each person's situation. Sessions are shaped around what the individual needs, not a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Kyra emphasizes practical steps and small changes that fit into daily life. Her work also includes support for addiction-related struggles, grief, body image and self-esteem issues, and challenges connected to family of origin or communication problems. She offers help with career questions, life purpose, and transitions that leave people feeling stuck.
Kyra draws on approaches such as client-centered therapy, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems to guide sessions. That means she listens closely, teaches ways to notice thoughts and feelings, and helps people understand the different parts of themselves that drive behavior. People meet her to get clearer about goals, reduce distressing symptoms, and build tools for handling future problems.
The emphasis is on practical coping, increased self-understanding, and steady progress at a pace that feels manageable.
Approach-focused online therapy with practical options
Kyra uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful dialogue where the person sets goals and feels heard; this approach is useful when someone needs a therapist who listens and follows their lead. She also incorporates mindfulness therapy, teaching simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease reactivity. Internal Family Systems helps people differentiate the parts of themselves that carry strong emotions or protective behaviors, which can be helpful for trauma, shame, and patterns like codependency.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to try methods that fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most. Clients often combine techniques from different approaches to match practical needs.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, live chat suits shorter exchanges, and messaging lets people reflect and respond on their own time. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English