Kyla Sorenne, ACA

Kyla Sorenne is an ACA counsellor with 15 years' experience supporting people through major life changes. She works with stress, anxiety, grief and depression, and helps people facing addictions and other difficult transitions. Her approach is practical and grounded in everyday skills. Kyla draws on mindfulness and breath work from a background in Buddhist psychology. She also teaches trauma-informed yoga and offers breathing exercises to help when the nervous system feels overwhelmed. These practices are used alongside talking therapy to help people feel steadier in the moment. She uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). Attachment-based ideas inform her work when relationships and early experiences matter. Sessions typically focus on clear goals, skill-building and noticing small changes that make life easier. People who come to Kyla often want practical tools as well as space to process loss and difficult feelings. She supports those coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns and substance use challenges. Kyla also works with grief, divorce and separation, and eating-related difficulties. Kyla is completing a Masters degree and holds Level 4 membership with the Australian Counsellors Association, which allows her to provide clinical supervision to other counsellors. She combines lived experience, movement-based practices and evidence-informed talk therapy to help people move forward.

How Kyla’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for stress, anxiety and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change thinking and behaviour patterns that keep problems going, which can help with depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current responses and can guide work on connection and trust issues. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kyla will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together to see what fits. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to real needs rather than offering a fixed programme. Session formats are not listed in the biography, so readers should confirm current session options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use breath work, guided exercises and talk-based techniques from wherever they are, which can help maintain continuity between sessions and practice skills in everyday settings.