Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
How Karla works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Texas, Oklahoma
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Karla
Karla Ayers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with six years of clinical experience based in Texas. She brings steady, practical support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and life transitions. Karla emphasizes strengths and respects each person's story as central to change.
She prefers straightforward work. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and choices that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to highlight existing strengths and fast-track useful changes. Karla has helped people with parenting challenges, family conflict, abandonment and attachment concerns, and issues tied to trauma and abuse. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and self-esteem struggles.
Her background includes work with children and teens around family and peer problems. In sessions she listens closely, asks practical questions, and suggests exercises that can be used between meetings. Expect collaborative planning, homework when it helps, and steady check-ins on progress.
She encourages clients to notice small wins and build on them. People who prefer a direct, skills-based approach often find her style a good match. She aims to make therapy a usable part of daily life rather than a vague or distant process.
Karla hopes to help clients move from feeling stuck to feeling more capable and clear about next steps.
What Karla works with
Everything Karla lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Karla's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Approaches Karla lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Evidence-informed approaches for online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel problems like anxiety, depression, and anger. It involves practical exercises, simple experiments, and skills you can use between sessions to shift patterns.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on what is already working and on small, achievable steps toward a clearer future. This approach is goal oriented and helps people build on strengths to create rapid, usable change in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Karla will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve, then blend methods that match those needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life. Video is useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can suit people who prefer writing, want quick reflections, or need flexible check-ins between appointments. These options support ongoing work without requiring travel and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
Questions people ask about Karla
What concerns does Karla commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and life changes, plus family and parenting challenges and trauma-related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear goals, skill practice, and small steps that people can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
Karla has six years of clinical experience and a history of working with people facing family conflict, trauma, parenting issues, and youth-related problems.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with licenses in Texas and Oklahoma and practices from Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.