- Collaborative sessions
- Strengths based
- Practical steps
About Zaya
Zaya Kuykendall is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people find a sense of balance during stressful periods. She draws on a long career in the helping field to guide clients toward clearer priorities and steadier emotions. Her approach centers on practical steps that can be used between sessions to keep progress moving forward.
She listens with openness and encourages honesty, making room for shared problem solving. Conversations focus on reconnecting with personal strengths, naming feelings, and deciding manageable next steps. Zaya aims to help people close chapters that keep them stuck and to build skills for emotional regulation.
Her work is shaped by an eclectic mix of approaches, including Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. That blend is used to offer supportive feedback, to set small goals, and to fast-track actionable change. Sessions are described as collaborative and oriented toward self-awareness and growth.
Zaya has sixteen years of experience in the helping professions and has practiced as a psychotherapist for about ten years. Her training includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling. Over time she developed focused knowledge in areas such as domestic violence, parenting, familial conflict, women’s issues, and substance use concerns.
She works with both children and adults and has provided care in individual, group, family, couples, and e-therapy settings. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, addictions, grief, and other life transitions.
Zaya frames therapy as tending to mental wounds - identifying what hurts, making a plan, and doing the work to heal so daily life can feel more manageable again.
She listens with openness and encourages honesty, making room for shared problem solving. Conversations focus on reconnecting with personal strengths, naming feelings, and deciding manageable next steps. Zaya aims to help people close chapters that keep them stuck and to build skills for emotional regulation.
Her work is shaped by an eclectic mix of approaches, including Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. That blend is used to offer supportive feedback, to set small goals, and to fast-track actionable change. Sessions are described as collaborative and oriented toward self-awareness and growth.
Zaya has sixteen years of experience in the helping professions and has practiced as a psychotherapist for about ten years. Her training includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling. Over time she developed focused knowledge in areas such as domestic violence, parenting, familial conflict, women’s issues, and substance use concerns.
She works with both children and adults and has provided care in individual, group, family, couples, and e-therapy settings. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, addictions, grief, and other life transitions.
Zaya frames therapy as tending to mental wounds - identifying what hurts, making a plan, and doing the work to heal so daily life can feel more manageable again.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.