About LaRaye
LaRaye Lyles welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
LaRaye writes plans with each person to match their goals and pace. She helps people facing LGBT concerns, parenting stress, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and focus issues like ADHD.
She also supports people dealing with attachment and family of origin concerns, blended family adjustments, and the strain of separation or divorce. LaRaye aims to be respectful and sensitive in sessions.
Conversations are tailored to what matters most to the individual. Expect straightforward talk about concrete steps you can try between meetings.
Her work addresses communication problems, commitment questions, multicultural stress, and feelings of isolation. She also offers help around gender dysphoria, polyamory or non-monogamous relationship challenges, and young adult issues.
Sessions can cover building self-love, clarifying life purpose, and coping with prejudice or discrimination. LaRaye focuses on practical support and steady guidance as people make changes.
People choose LaRaye for her long experience and steady approach. She meets clients where they are and adjusts the plan as needs shift.
Approaches and how online sessions work
LaRaye draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing patterns in daily life. One approach emphasizes improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful cycles and practicing new ways of relating; this can help with commitment questions, blended family tensions, and communication problems. Another approach targets skills for attention and regulation, helping people with ADHD or focus challenges to build routines, break tasks into smaller steps, and improve concentration and memory.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. LaRaye will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then adjust the plan as progress is made. The work is meant to be flexible and responsive to each person’s needs.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions can be easier when video is not practical, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to maintain consistency over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English