LMHC, LPCC
Zaya Kuykendall, LMHC, LPCC
- Experience16 years
- LocationCalifornia
- Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Addictions
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Zaya
Zaya Kuykendall is a licensed psychotherapist with 16 years of experience who guides people toward reestablishing balance and emotional well-being. She helps clients reconnect with themselves, clarify priorities, and develop practical strategies for regulating emotions.
Background and approach
Zaya emphasizes openness and collaboration, taking time to listen and to jointly decide on steps that support growth and greater self-awareness. Her practice blends several therapeutic influences including Gestalt, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques.
She offers supportive feedback while helping clients identify feelings, resolve unfinished business, and build personal strengths. Zaya frames therapy as treatment for mental wounds, encouraging active care and a clear plan to address unhelpful thoughts, past trauma, and life stresses.
Across her work she addresses a broad range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar disorder, parenting matters, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, coping with life changes, coaching, and ADHD.
Her approach aims to help clients move forward on their personal journeys toward greater calm and functioning.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Gestalt-influenced work in her practice focuses on present-moment awareness and how patterns of thinking and behavior show up in daily life; this approach helps clients notice what is happening now and make changes that improve emotional regulation and relationships. Motivational interviewing is used to explore ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change, which can be helpful for concerns such as addictions, lifestyle shifts, and treatment engagement. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on identifying practical steps and small goals that move clients toward clearer priorities and measurable progress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist partners with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, then adapts methods over time so the treatment plan feels like a good fit for the individual’s situation and pace.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow greater flexibility for scheduling and ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care when life is busy or travel is difficult, and they support different communication styles so clients can choose what works best for them.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Experience
16+ years
Licensed
New York, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Utah
Languages
English
What Zaya can help with
Zaya Kuykendall works with clients on stress and anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and depression.
Experience and training
Zaya is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in California, with 16 years of clinical experience.