Our Team

Kayla provides phone and video/virtual counselling to clients across British Columbia. She works with children, youth and adults, and supports individuals, couples and families.

Kayla seeks to offer her clients calmness when things feel chaotic and compassion when they are feeling vulnerable. She supports clients in achieving greater insight, growth and connection with others. Her approach to the therapeutic session is rooted in her belief that every person longs to be understood and accepted for who they are.

Kayla’s sessions are welcoming, collaborative and enhancing. Her expertise lies in her therapeutic intuition and attention to detail. Kayla is a detective, piecing together the puzzle of her client’s concerns. Kayla deeply honours each client for their unique experiences and seeks to understand them in a meaningful way.

Relationship & Couples Therapy

Kayla specializes in working with couples using the Gottman Method, allowing her to identify harmful relationship dynamics and support couples to develop the skills to achieve healthier communication patterns and increased intimacy, affection, empathy, understanding and respect.

She strives to equip couples with tools to continue building their relationship between sessions and after completing counselling. She has completed Gottman Method training Levels 1 & 2, as well as their Treating Affairs and Trauma course.

Parent Support & Education

Kayla also has extensive experience supporting parents. She uses positive parenting interventions to help them understand their child’s behaviours and overcome challenges. Her focus when working with parents is to help stabilize the family, increase attachment, and build resiliency.

She also supports individuals and couples adjusting to the transition to parenthood and those experiencing new parent isolation and loneliness.

Kayla’s work with parents focuses on helping them:

• understand children’s developmental and emotional needs

• learn evidence-informed parenting strategies

• support attachment, regulation, and consistency

• apply tools within their own parenting role

ADHD-Informed Counselling

Kayla provides ADHD-informed care to her clients. She has completed extensive additional training to provide meaningful support to neurodivergent clients and has significant experience in this area of practice.

She supports:

• individuals navigating ADHD, including those with a recent diagnosis or who suspect they may have ADHD

• couples where one or both partners have ADHD, helping to address communication challenges, emotional regulation, conflict patterns, and differences in attention, memory, and task management

• parents with ADHD who are balancing their own needs while parenting, including support with organization, consistency, and reducing overwhelm

• parents of children with ADHD who are seeking to better understand their child’s needs and behaviours

Kayla works with clients to better understand how ADHD presents in daily life and relationships, and to develop practical, individualized strategies that support regulation, communication, and functioning at home, in relationships, and in everyday routines.

Trauma-Informed Therapy

Kayla is a trauma-informed practitioner with a history of providing trauma counselling to clients who have experienced challenging life circumstances and events. She has completed various training courses to support her work with clients.

She is skilled in supporting those who have experienced a recent trauma and require support in the immediate days and weeks following the event, as well as clients seeking longer-term therapies.

Additional Areas of Practice

Kayla works with clients of all ages and stages of life. She is comfortable working with complex issues including abuse, trauma, neglect, family issues, attachment wounds, and grief and loss.

In addition to her primary areas of practice, she helps clients address difficulties with emotional regulation, anger management, conflict management and addictions/substance use. She also offers support with self-esteem, boundary setting, stress and burnout, depression and anxiety.

Kayla works with clients to explore their identity, sexual orientation, and sense of purpose and meaning, and supports clients through life transitions, including separation and divorce.

Counselling Approach

Kayla draws from a broad collection of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and more, to strategically support each client. Her focus is on providing sound, safe, non-judgmental sessions.

Specialized Services – Separation/Divorce, Co-Parenting & Blended Families, or Parent Support & Education

As a specialized service, Kayla uses her extensive training in clinical counselling, mediation, and arbitration to support:

• former partners who have decided to separate/divorce or have already done so

• co-parents who are wanting to do so more effectively and with reduced conflict

• families that are struggling with the blending process

Kayla offers advanced strategies that empower clients to achieve dispute resolution with a focus on supporting customized solutions and obtaining stability on family matters. Her expertise enables her to address culturally and clinically diverse needs, supporting meaningful discussions through the emotional challenges of separation/divorce, co-parenting and family blending.

Kayla also provides parent support and education in more complex family circumstances, including but not limited to separation, high conflict, and two-home dynamics. This work focuses on supporting parents in navigating challenges while maintaining a child-focused, developmentally informed approach.

This may include situations where:

• parents are not actively co-parenting together but need support in applying consistent parenting approaches across households

• there are attachment concerns or ruptures requiring psychoeducation paired with therapeutic support

• children are resisting contact or experiencing distress, and parents need guidance in understanding what may be driving the behaviour and how to respond in developmentally appropriate ways

This stream of work draws on positive parenting tools and therapeutic support rather than forensic or opinion-based approaches, with a focus on helping parents understand their child’s needs and implement practical strategies, rather than assessing blame, capacity, or making determinations.

Kayla’s work within this area is therapeutic in nature and non-evaluative. She does not complete assessments related to parenting capacity, make determinations, or assign blame. Her role is to support parents in understanding their child’s needs, navigating challenges, and implementing practical, developmentally informed strategies that promote stability and well-being within the family system.

Kayla’s commitment to continuous professional development is evident in her completed and ongoing training and consultations with legal experts, ensuring she remains at the forefront of industry-leading expertise. With over 200 hours of specialized training and extensive experience supporting couples and families, Kayla is dedicated to fostering healthy family dynamics and empowering clients to navigate their unique circumstances with confidence and compassion.

Clients interested in the specialized services that Kayla offers are asked to begin with a free 15-minute consultation to determine whether this approach is appropriate for their circumstances and goals. This allows for an initial understanding of needs and ensures that the service is a good fit before moving forward.

The specialized services Kayla provides are clinical in nature, and remain within the parameters of her Registered Clinical Counsellor designation. She does not provide mediation or arbitration services through Gravitate. As separation/divorce counselling, support for blending families, and parent support and education is a specialized service, Kayla’s rate for these sessions falls in line with the BCACC’s 2024 Fee Guidelines for Specialized Services.

About Kayla

Kayla has been supporting children, youth, adults, couples and families in a variety of roles since 2010. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). Kayla completed her Master of Counselling program at City University of Seattle.

Rate

Individuals
$165 per 50 minute session
$240 per 80 minute session

Couples/Families
$205 per 50 minute session
$305 per 80 minute session

Specialized Services
$250 per 50 minute session
$395 per 80 minute session