- Strengths focused
- Practical steps
- Active listening
About Kayla
Kayla Davis is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She practices from a strengths-based perspective and helps people facing anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and self esteem concerns. Kayla uses straightforward conversation and active listening to help people make workable changes in daily life.
She began studying nutrition and then shifted to psychology, which led her into clinical work with eating disorders and broader mental health care. Kayla completed a Master of Social Work at the University of Hawaii Pacific University and holds an MA Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Hawaii. These credentials reflect her clinical training and years in practice.
Her early work included internships focused on addictions, cancer survivorship, and serious mental illness, and she later worked with people experiencing homelessness, teens, and those coping with mood disorders. That range shaped her flexible approach and emphasis on cultural awareness learned during graduate training.
In sessions she combines cognitive behavioral techniques with motivational interviewing and uses client-centered listening to help people clarify goals. She offers practical exercises and reflection, then supports people as they try changes between meetings. Kayla pays attention to body image, codependency, and communication problems alongside core concerns like bipolar disorder and trauma.
She aims to meet people where they are and build on strengths. If you want a conversational, practical therapist who focuses on usable steps, consider the Start Therapy process to see if she might be a fit.
She began studying nutrition and then shifted to psychology, which led her into clinical work with eating disorders and broader mental health care. Kayla completed a Master of Social Work at the University of Hawaii Pacific University and holds an MA Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Hawaii. These credentials reflect her clinical training and years in practice.
Her early work included internships focused on addictions, cancer survivorship, and serious mental illness, and she later worked with people experiencing homelessness, teens, and those coping with mood disorders. That range shaped her flexible approach and emphasis on cultural awareness learned during graduate training.
In sessions she combines cognitive behavioral techniques with motivational interviewing and uses client-centered listening to help people clarify goals. She offers practical exercises and reflection, then supports people as they try changes between meetings. Kayla pays attention to body image, codependency, and communication problems alongside core concerns like bipolar disorder and trauma.
She aims to meet people where they are and build on strengths. If you want a conversational, practical therapist who focuses on usable steps, consider the Start Therapy process to see if she might be a fit.