Jaylea Black , LCSW, CSW, LSCSW

Jaylea Black is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of experience helping people navigate trauma, addiction, mood challenges, and major life changes. She holds the credentials LCSW, CSW, and LSCSW, which indicate clinical social work licensure and specialized clinical training, and she is licensed as a master's-level addiction counselor in Kansas and as a clinical social worker in Colorado. Jaylea has completed training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Competency to Stand Trial evaluations, and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).

She has worked with clients aged 3 and older from both rural and urban backgrounds, including LGBT+ individuals, on concerns such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, emotional and physical trauma, parenting difficulties, career stress, grief, and challenges related to chronic or terminal illness. Her clinical experience also includes work with addiction, bipolar disorder, caregiving stress, first responder issues, and a range of family and life transition topics.

Jaylea uses an eclectic, empathetic, and interactive style that blends cognitive-behavioral techniques, EMDR, and solution-focused strategies to create individualized treatment plans. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels, and she collaborates with clients to set clear expectations and goals. The first session serves as a consult to determine fit and outline a plan of care. Jaylea is based in Kansas and is accepting clients at this time.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and everyday challenges by teaching strategies to reframe thinking and build coping skills.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It can be helpful for survivors of abuse, accidents, or other traumatic events when used with appropriate clinical judgment.

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes strengths and short-term goal setting to help clients identify what is working and build on those successes. It is often useful for clients seeking practical change around relationships, career, parenting, or life transitions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jaylea Black works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to tailor interventions that fit the individual. Together they will monitor progress and adjust strategies as needed.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it easier to maintain continuity of care. These options allow licensed professionals to meet clients where they are and provide consistent support for therapy and skill practice.