Meadowbrook CounselingRiverton, Utah

She has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults, and is passionate about expanding her work to support individuals across the lifespan. Kyla utilizes a variety of therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), play therapy, art therapy, and sandtray therapy, to meet clients where they are and create a safe, supportive environment for growth. She has experience working with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, and major life transitions. Kyla is deeply committed to helping others feel seen, supported, and empowered. She believes that everyone can benefit from therapy and strives to build genuine, trusting relationships with each client she works with. Kyla views therapy as a safe, nonjudgmental space where individuals can grow, heal, and better understand themselves, and she is dedicated to helping clients feel heard and valued throughout their journey.

She also received a certificate in Domestic Violence. Latifah began volunteering in courts and worked as a student professional worker at the Santa Monica Courthouse Family Law Department. That is where her passion for helping families began. During graduate school, she worked in Vocational Rehabilitation and has experience working in schools throughout her social work career, including SCC Counseling Assistance Program for Students and LAUSD School Mental Health in California. Latifah uses CBT, EMDR, and Child- Centered Play Therapy. She works with families, children, teens, and adults. Latifah is an empathetic, passionate clinician who believes in helping people advocate for themselves in order to live their most authentic lives. She teaches clients that it takes hard work, grace, and honesty in learning to love yourself. She enjoys being able to walk alongside her clients and challenge them to do the hard work for their own healing. She also believes it is important to understand that each journey is different, our systems play a huge role in our lives, and healing takes time. When asked about unique, fun facts about herself, Latifah shares that she is biracial and is married with five children. She loves to read, write, travel, and is a big foodie! She and her husband love to find yummy hole-in-the-wall places to eat. We are thrilled to have Latifah on our clinical team.

I work to create a space where you can feel comfortable being yourself, explore the patterns that are keeping you stuck, and figure out what you want to do differently. My approach is collaborative and relational. I believe you are the expert on your own life, and my role is to work alongside you to better understand what is happening and where you want to go from here. One of the main things we will often do in therapy is identify patterns and find ways to do something different. Sometimes the problem that brings you into therapy isn't really the whole problem. It may be one more example of a larger pattern showing up in your relationships, your work, or the way you see yourself. I love helping clients slow those patterns down, understand them, and find new ways of responding. I especially love working with couples who feel caught in the same cycles of conflict, disconnection, or misunderstanding. Rather than focusing only on what you're fighting about, I want to help you understand what is happening underneath the conflict and how you've gotten caught in a pattern that is difficult to break. From there, we can work toward communicating differently, feeling more understood, and creating the kind of relationship you both want. I also enjoy working with individuals who are motivated for change, particularly people who are used to holding themselves to high standards and accomplishing a lot, but may struggle to give themselves the same grace they readily give to others. Therapy can be a place to slow down, better understand yourself, and recognize that you don't have to constantly do more, achieve more, or be more to be enough. I welcome clients from a wide range of backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and relationship structures. I am LGBTQ+ affirming and strive to create a space where you don't have to fit a particular mold to feel comfortable. Whether you are navigating relationships, anxiety, self-worth, life changes, identity, or patterns you're ready to understand and change, I want you to feel like you can show up as your whole self. My path to becoming a therapist came from a deep desire to be part of something meaningful in people's lives. Before becoming a therapist, I often found myself in jobs where I was helping people, but the help was usually limited to solving a problem in the moment. I wanted to be part of something deeper. Therapy showed me what that could look like. I was drawn to the process of people coming to understand themselves and their relationships in new ways, and I wanted to create that kind of space for others. Today, I feel incredibly honored to sit with people in the middle of the hard, complicated parts of their lives. I love those moments when something clicks, a pattern starts to make sense, or a client discovers a new way of seeing or responding. Being able to witness those moments and walk alongside people as they figure out what comes next is one of the things I value most about being a therapist.

Supporting individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, family-related trauma, and boundary issues, I tailor my approach to each client’s needs. With years of experience working with children, teens, adults, couples, and families across clinical and community settings, I am committed to helping you feel seen, supported, and empowered throughout the therapeutic process.

I work with all ages, children, teens, adults, and older adults, and I aim to create a space where clients feel heard, validated, accepted, empowered, and emotionally safe from the very first session. I’m known for being genuine, calming, and affirming, and for creating a space where clients can show up as their full selves. I bring a strong empowerment lens to therapy, especially for clients navigating identity exploration, relational stress, trauma recovery, or major life transitions. My goal is for you to leave sessions feeling accepted, steadier, and more confident in your ability to cope and make choices that align with your values. My clinical experience includes supporting clients navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, identity exploration, and relational conflict. I especially connect with teens experiencing bullying, survivors of sexual violence, women seeking empowerment, members of the LGBTQ+ community, older adults, and individuals coping with medical or health conditions that impact mental well-being. My approach is warm, person-centered, and trauma-informed, meaning therapy is collaborative and paced to fit your needs. Depending on your goals, I may integrate strategies from CBT, ACT, and DBT-informed skills, and with children and teens, I may incorporate play-based approaches to help emotions feel more accessible and manageable. Whether you’re looking for healing, support, clarity, or practical coping tools, I’ll meet you with compassion, honesty, and deep respect for your story.