Kayla McClain Counseling, PLLC

08/20/2025

Peace comes from trusting your abilities to manage challenges that come your way. If you need a little encouragement, we can help reinforce those skills, or introduce new ones.

05/30/2025

Hello everyone, I am transitioning my counseling practice to private pay only, effective June 20th. By that date, I will no longer accept insurance. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

05/14/2025

Hello all! Just a little announcement that my Summer availability will be very limited due to my children being home full time and limited childcare. This will only be for a short time and regular scheduling will resume mid August. I appreciate your understanding. Feel free to contact me to work out scheduling. Enjoy your summer! ☀️

01/21/2025

“…did you know that whether or not you have access to your upper cortex can impact your functional IQ by up to 50 points?” -Synergetic Educational Institute

12/25/2024

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Bessel van der Kolk is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and President of the Trauma Research Foundation. He is the author of t...

12/05/2024

I’m finally feeling better today and should be back to fully normal soon! If I haven’t gotten ahold of you to reschedule please reach out!

11/18/2024

Sometimes the first line of defense in your mental health should be seeing your physician and getting your labs checked. Watch for more info on this.

10/28/2024

Hello all! Just a scheduling announcement for current or future clients:

The upcoming holidays will make scheduling a little bit crammed and chaotic as I will be taking days off here and there the next two months to be with family. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Also, I am currently completely full and I am not accepting new clients for the time being.

If you are unable to make a session or have to cancel it may be a few weeks out before I’m able to reschedule you. I’m hoping to do the best I can to finish out the year and fit everyone in. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
-Kayla 

10/15/2024

*Are you a stuffer? Do you have trouble accessing or identifying your emotions?

Believe it or not blood is always flowing to emotional circuits of your brain. So we are always feeling some sort of emotion. You just may not be used to accessing it to identify it.

Try accessing them through your body.

The mind-body connection is reciprocal, with one's thoughts affecting bodily health and physical conditions influencing mental outlook.

AKA- the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind.

Start by working on identifying what’s happening in your body. How do you feel and where do you feel it at? How big is it? How intense? Are your shoulders tense? Jaw? Stomach knotted up? Is there an emotional name for it now?

You don’t always have to talk it out, sometimes you need to do something physical to access and release emotions. Focus on the feeling or sensation and: Go for a walk, lift some weights, try some tapping. Resist masking it for a little while and sit with it (avoid doom scrolling or distraction). Now you’re working with your nervous system and brain body connection. 🧠 💪

Info credit: Dr K- Healthy Gamer

10/07/2024

Here’s a little Halloween themed post in honour of the 1st of October