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LaRaye Lyles

LaRaye Lyles, LMFT

Therapist in California

Compassionate therapist helping build lasting confidence

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24 years of experience listed

LMFT professional credentials

English languages

  • Self esteem focus
  • Parenting support
  • LGBT concerns

About LaRaye

LaRaye Lyles is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 24 years of clinical experience. She supports people who are struggling with self esteem, motivation, confidence, and the special pressures that come with parenting and LGBTQ+ related concerns. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and encourages those first small steps toward change.

Her work often focuses on building practical skills to feel better about yourself and your choices. She helps clients address concentration and focus challenges, including attention issues that can get in the way of daily life. She also helps people cope with compassion fatigue and the wear that caregiving or emotionally demanding roles can cause.

LaRaye adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person’s needs. That means sessions are shaped around real goals like improving self-love, managing stress, or restoring confidence after life changes. She also addresses relationship and family topics such as communication problems, blended family adjustments, divorce and separation, and attachment concerns.

Her work includes helping people navigate identity and social stressors tied to gender dysphoria, multicultural backgrounds, prejudice, and non-monogamous relationships. LaRaye places practical problem solving and steady support at the center of the collaboration.

If you are ready to begin, she asks that you take the first step: complete the site’s short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability. The approach is flexible and tailored to each person’s situation.

Approaches that help build confidence and focus

LaRaye works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people feel more confident and manage attention and stress. One approach she relies on is practical skills training that breaks larger goals into manageable steps, helping clients build confidence through small, achievable changes. This can be useful for self esteem, motivation, and parenting challenges.

She also uses focused strategies to address attention and concentration concerns, offering ways to improve daily routines, memory aids, and task management to reduce frustration and increase functioning. These techniques often include short, concrete exercises you can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. LaRaye will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adjust methods as work progresses. She treats the choice of techniques as a shared decision rather than a fixed plan.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing appointments during breaks or evenings. It also lets people continue work when location or schedules change, while still focusing on real skills for building self-esteem and improving concentration.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

LGBTParenting issuesSelf esteemCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesBlended family issuesCommitment issuesCommunication problemsDivorce and separationFamily of origin issuesGender dysphoriaIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMulticultural concernsPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Experience

24+ years

Credentials

California

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does LaRaye help with?

She works with people on self esteem, motivation, confidence, and parenting challenges, as well as LGBTQ+ related issues and compassion fatigue.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

She uses respectful, sensitive conversation and practical problem solving, tailoring sessions and plans to each person’s needs and goals.

How much experience does she bring?

LaRaye has 24 years of professional work experience as a therapist in California.

What are her credentials and location?

She is a LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - practicing in California.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to get started?

Select the continue button on this profile, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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