About MaKayla
MaKayla Walker is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. She uses a friendly, down-to-earth approach to make sessions feel approachable and practical. MaKayla holds an IL LCSW and a MN LICSW and brings three years of clinical experience to her work.
She aims to build on each person's strengths and teach tools they can use between sessions. Meetings are collaborative - she listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals.
How MaKayla works
Sessions often include short exercises, practical strategies, and gentle challenges meant to promote steady progress. MaKayla works with people dealing with low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She also helps those facing codependency, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, self-harm concerns, self-love, and women’s issues.
Her focus is on what matters in day-to-day life and on small steps that lead to improvement. Her methods draw from evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. These tools help people change unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and try new behaviors.
People meet with her via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She helps set a pace that fits each person’s schedule and needs, and she guides the process from the first short questionnaire through scheduling and follow-up.
MaKayla lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What MaKayla works with
The areas below are the ones MaKayla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps in that direction while learning to accept difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and when life changes make values unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill building. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.Finding the right approach is part of the work. MaKayla will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. She encourages trying techniques in-session and adjusting them over time so the plan fits the person’s life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video gives face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when you need lower bandwidth, live chat is suited to shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect and respond on their own schedule. These formats make therapy more flexible for busy lives and different routines.
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