About Skyla
Skyla Hammond is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings a straightforward, compassionate style to therapy. She draws on five years of professional experience and focuses on practical help for common life problems. Her background includes work with people facing complex mental health challenges, and she aims to meet clients where they are.
Skyla uses familiar, hands-on techniques in sessions. She and clients talk through specific problems and try small, doable steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Techniques often include cognitive-behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness exercises to calm the mind and build new habits. Skyla understands life changes and the strain they cause. She listens without judgment and helps people sort priorities, manage stress, and cope with grief or loss.
She also addresses relationship worries, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and career stress in clear, practical terms. Her experience includes supporting people living with mood conditions such as depression and bipolar, and helping those with ADHD, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also has a focus on aging and geriatric issues and the different needs that arise over time.
Skyla offers therapy in English and works with international clients as well. Sessions happen online through several formats, allowing flexibility for people balancing work, family, or other commitments. She encourages a gentle, steady pace so change feels manageable.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on supporting each person’s own goals and pacing. The therapist listens closely and helps people identify changes they want to make, which works well through conversation over video or phone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thought and behavior patterns and offers concrete exercises to try between sessions; those exercises adapt easily to remote formats and can be reviewed during calls. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple breathing and awareness techniques to reduce stress and improve sleep, and these short practices can be guided in a live session or sent as prompts in messaging.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and together pick or blend methods that feel most useful. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses to keep work focused and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and styles. Video works well for in-depth sessions and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between meetings or use brief coaching-style exchanges. These options help people fit care into busy lives and stay consistent with small steps toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English