Kayla Buchanan(She/Her/Hers)

Kayla is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate with specialized training in holistic mental health approaches that integrate the mind, body, and spirit as a core component of therapy. Kayla's clinical focus is to provide an empathetic, gentle, and collaborative space for clients to explore their lived experience and foster healing, personal growth, and improved self-awareness. Kayla leads with curiosity while offering guidance to help clients achieve their vision, purpose, and self-determined goals. She employs a strengths based and person-centered approach while collaborating with clients to identify therapeutic strategies that are tailored to their unique needs. Kayla frequently utilizes therapeutic methods such as mindfulness, trauma-informed counseling, attachment theory, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and narrative therapy in her practice.

Kayla enjoys working with clients of all ages, including children, adolescents, adults, and couples to address various issues that may include trauma, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and/or relationship challenges.

As a wife and mother of two, Kayla specifically enjoys supporting women as they navigate the transformative journey into motherhood and beyond, assisting them in fostering, maintaining, or re-establishing a strong sense of self. Moreover, she brings specialized training in the Gottman Method for couples counseling, allowing her to support couples and co-parents in building healthy communication habits, rebuilding trust, and creating supportive environments where relationships can flourish.