Shayla Kaywood, LPC

Shayla Kaywood is a licensed therapist with more than 15 years of experience helping people navigate major life transitions and emotional challenges. Based in Louisiana, she focuses on stress management, relationship dynamics, self-esteem concerns, and personal growth, offering support for issues like social anxiety, communication barriers, and isolation. She uses a compassionate, culturally responsive approach to meet each client where they are and to honor diverse life experiences and identities.

Drawing on a trauma-informed perspective, Shayla assists clients facing workplace difficulties, relationship transitions, and identity exploration, guiding them toward greater resilience and self-understanding. Her work emphasizes healing from shame and guilt, strengthening self-love, and building meaningful connections. She is particularly dedicated to supporting women's mental health and addressing multicultural concerns as part of life’s most challenging transitions.

Shayla holds the credential LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor - a credential that indicates advanced training to provide therapeutic care. Her practice centers on empowering clients to develop practical coping skills, improve communication, and move toward their most authentic selves with dignity and strength.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Shayla practices with a trauma-informed lens, which means she considers how past experiences of trauma can affect current thoughts, emotions, and relationships and works gently to build safety and coping strategies that support healing. She also emphasizes culturally responsive care, adapting her work to respect each client's background, identity, and values while addressing issues like isolation, shame, and communication challenges. In addition, she draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills - such as emotion regulation, stress management, and communication tools - to help clients manage anxiety, anger, relationship difficulties, and life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Shayla collaborates with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most effective for them, adjusting techniques over time to fit individual needs and to support steady progress.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity during transitions, and access licensed professionals from different locations while working on challenges such as stress, relationships, and self-esteem.