Kayla Fleming
When your relationship feels stuck, parenting feels overwhelming, or life feels chaotic, you want support that actually helps you move forward. Kayla offers calm, compassionate counselling grounded in insight, connection…
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About Kayla
When your relationship feels stuck, parenting feels overwhelming, or life feels chaotic, you want support that actually helps you move forward. Kayla offers calm, compassionate counselling grounded in insight, connection, and real change.
Kayla’s sessions are welcoming, collaborative and enhancing. Her expertise lies in her therapeutic intuition and attention to detail. Kayla is a detective, piecing together the puzzle of her client’s concerns. Kayla deeply honours each client for their unique experiences and seeks to understand them in a meaningful way. She supports clients in achieving greater insight, growth and connection with others. Her approach to the therapeutic session is rooted in her belief that every person longs to be understood and accepted for who they are.
Primary Areas of Practice
Clients often reach out when something isn’t working the way it used to: when communication breaks down, parenting feels heavier than expected, or daily life feels harder to manage. Whether you’re looking to strengthen a relationship, better understand yourself or your child, or navigate a major transition, Kayla offers a space to slow things down and find a clearer path forward.
Kayla offers support with:
- Relationship challenges, including communication, conflict, rebuilding connection, and navigating ADHD-related relationship dynamics
- Transition to parenthood, including overwhelm, isolation, and adjustment
- Parenting support, including child behaviour, attachment, and family stress
- ADHD (diagnosed or suspected) and its impact on daily life, relationships, and parenting
- Separation, divorce, co-parenting, and blended family challenges
Relationship & Couples Therapy
Kayla work extensively with couples using the Gottman Method, allowing her to identify harmful relationship dynamics and support couples to develop the skills to achieve healthier communication patterns and increased intimacy, affection, empathy, understanding and respect.
She strives to equip couples with tools to continue building their relationship between sessions and after completing counselling. She has completed Gottman Method training Levels 1 & 2, as well as their Treating Affairs and Trauma course.
Parent Support & Education
Kayla also has extensive experience supporting parents. She uses positive parenting interventions to help them understand their child’s behaviours and overcome challenges. Her focus when working with parents is to help stabilize the family, increase attachment, and build resiliency.
She also supports individuals and couples adjusting to the transition to parenthood and those experiencing new parent isolation and loneliness.
Kayla’s work with parents focuses on helping them:
- understand children’s developmental and emotional needs
- learn evidence-informed parenting strategies
- support attachment, regulation, and consistency
- apply tools within their own parenting role
ADHD-Informed Counselling
Kayla provides ADHD-informed care to her clients. She has completed extensive additional training to provide meaningful support to neurodivergent clients and has significant experience in this area of practice.
She supports:
- individuals navigating ADHD, including those with a recent diagnosis or who suspect they may have ADHD
- couples where one or both partners have ADHD, helping to address communication challenges, emotional regulation, conflict patterns, and differences in attention, memory, and task management
- parents with ADHD who are balancing their own needs while parenting, including support with organization, consistency, and reducing overwhelm
- parents of children with ADHD who are seeking to better understand their child’s needs and behaviours
Kayla works with clients to better understand how ADHD presents in daily life and relationships, and to develop practical, individualized strategies that support regulation, communication, and functioning at home, in relationships, and in everyday routines.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Kayla is a trauma-informed practitioner with a history of providing trauma counselling to clients who have experienced challenging life circumstances and events. She has completed various training courses to support her work with clients.
She is skilled in supporting those who have experienced a recent trauma and require support in the immediate days and weeks following the event, as well as clients seeking longer-term therapies.
Additional Areas of Practice
Kayla works with clients of all ages and stages of life. She is comfortable working with complex issues including abuse, trauma, neglect, family issues, attachment wounds, and grief and loss.
In addition to her primary areas of practice, she helps clients address difficulties with emotional regulation, anger management, conflict management and addictions/substance use. She also offers support with self-esteem, boundary setting, stress and burnout, depression and anxiety.
Kayla works with clients to explore their identity, sexual orientation, and sense of purpose and meaning, and supports clients through life transitions, including separation and divorce.
Counselling Approach
Kayla draws from a broad collection of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and more, to strategically support each client. Her focus is on providing sound, safe, non-judgmental sessions.
Specialized Services – Separation/Divorce, Co-Parenting & Blended Families, or Parent Support & Education
As a specialized service, Kayla uses her extensive training in clinical counselling, mediation, and arbitration to support:
- former partners who have decided to separate/divorce or have already done so
- co-parents who are wanting to do so more effectively and with reduced conflict
- families that are struggling with the blending process
Kayla offers advanced strategies that empower clients to achieve dispute resolution with a focus on supporting customized solutions and obtaining stability on family matters. Her expertise enables her to address culturally and clinically diverse needs, supporting meaningful discussions through the emotional challenges of separation/divorce, co-parenting and family blending.
Kayla also provides parent support and education in more complex family circumstances, including but not limited to separation, high conflict, and two-home dynamics. This work focuses on supporting parents in navigating challenges while maintaining a child-focused, developmentally informed approach.
This may include situations where:
- parents are not actively co-parenting together but need support in applying consistent parenting approaches across households
- there are attachment concerns or ruptures requiring psychoeducation paired with therapeutic support
- children are resisting contact or experiencing distress, and parents need guidance in understanding what may be driving the behaviour and how to respond in developmentally appropriate ways
This stream of work draws on positive parenting tools and therapeutic support rather than forensic or opinion-based approaches, with a focus on helping parents understand their child’s needs and implement practical strategies, rather than assessing blame, capacity, or making determinations.
Kayla’s work within this area is therapeutic in nature and non-evaluative. She does not complete assessments related to parenting capacity, make determinations, or assign blame. Her role is to support parents in understanding their child’s needs, navigating challenges, and implementing practical, developmentally informed strategies that promote stability and well-being within the family system.
Kayla’s commitment to continuous professional development is evident in her completed and ongoing training and consultations with legal experts, ensuring she remains at the forefront of industry-leading expertise. With over 200 hours of specialized training and extensive experience supporting couples and families, Kayla is dedicated to fostering healthy family dynamics and empowering clients to navigate their unique circumstances with confidence and compassion.
Clients interested in the specialized services that Kayla offers are asked to begin with a free 15-minute consultation to determine whether this approach is appropriate for their circumstances and goals. This allows for an initial understanding of needs and ensures that the service is a good fit before moving forward.
The specialized services Kayla provides are clinical in nature, and remain within the parameters of her Registered Clinical Counsellor designation. She does not provide mediation or arbitration services through Gravitate. As separation/divorce counselling, support for blending families, and parent support and education is a specialized service, Kayla’s rate for these sessions falls in line with the BCACC’s 2024 Fee Guidelines for Specialized Services.
About Kayla
Kayla has been supporting children, youth, adults, couples and families in a variety of roles since 2010. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). Kayla completed her Master of Counselling program at City University of Seattle.
Rate
Individuals
$165 per 50 minute session
$240 per 80 minute session
Couples/Families
$205 per 50 minute session
$305 per 80 minute session
Specialized Services
$250 per 50 minute session
$395 per 80 minute session
Please note: emails/messages sent to Kayla through the CounsellingBC.com website are forwarded to the confidential inbox of the Clinical Director of Gravitate Counselling Inc., who can answer your questions and/or help you book your first appointment with her.