About Zaya
Zaya Kuykendall is a licensed mental health counselor and holds LMHC and LPCC credentials. She brings 16 years of experience helping people untangle stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship struggles. Zaya aims to help clients reconnect with themselves and find a personal sense of balance and calm.
She uses a collaborative, straightforward style. Sessions focus on identifying emotions, noticing roadblocks, and setting realistic goals. Zaya encourages openness and honesty so people can make steady changes that fit their life.
Background and approach
Her work draws from several practical approaches, including Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused practices. That mix is used to build strengths, gain closure on unfinished issues, and create clear steps forward. Conversations are meant to be useful and action-oriented rather than abstract.
Zaya has a background in working on domestic violence, parenting and child development, familial discord, women’s issues, and substance abuse. Her training and years in the field inform how she supports people through grief, career shifts, bipolar challenges, and other life transitions. In sessions she helps people regulate emotions, assess priorities, and plan next steps.
The aim is self-awareness and practical change. She frames therapy as treatment for mental wounds - identifying problems, making a plan, and working toward healing.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Gestalt-influenced work focuses on present-moment awareness and how past patterns show up now; it helps people notice feelings and choices so they can respond differently. Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation one step at a time. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on identifying small, practical steps and leveraging existing strengths to move toward clear goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that match those priorities. If something isn’t helping, adjustments are made together until the plan fits the person’s life and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short conversations into a busy day or keep consistent contact between sessions. These options give flexibility to match therapy to a client’s schedule and communication style.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Utah
- Languages
- English