Welcome! My name is Chelsea Lye and I am grateful for the opportunity to join you on your journey toward personal growth. My counseling style is warm and welcoming while also being mindful, deliberative, and personalized to each individual and family unit. Our sessions together will encourage you to process your thoughts and feelings to help you manage adversity with current and/or past challenges. It is my belief that you have the inherent ability to heal and grow. My role as a therapist is to help guide you on your path toward healing. 

I hold a Marriage and Family Therapy License in the state of Arizona (LMFT-15751), Idaho (LMFT-9297), and Washington (LF 60802092) . I am certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) and a Child Mental Health Specialist (CMHS). I spent over five years in community mental health before opening my private practice in 2020. I have experience working with children, caregivers, families, and individuals in a variety of settings. My counseling style is rooted in a strengths-based approach and holds a culturally respectful and humble lens. My therapeutic interventions are eclectic – I work to find a model and approach that fits each individual or family. The models I work from include: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Humanistic Psychology, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and others.  

The Hawaiian word, Kailani, means “sea and sky.” Kailani is significant to me because it symbolizes my family’s roots in Hawai’i and evokes a sense of peacefulness that is found when staring at the line between the sea and the sky.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, taking long walks with friends, discovering new brunch spots, combing through secondhand bookstores for well-loved poetry books and novels, practicing yoga, and wandering/wondering outdoors in nature.

In our sessions together, I will work to provide a calm and supportive space to help you explore themes from your early life to present day. Some of the common themes I address are anxiety, complex childhood trauma, cultural identity issues, increasing emotional well-being, issues and challenges within the AAPI community, obsessive compulsive disorder, people-pleasing, perinatal anxiety/OCD/PTSD, relationships with family members and/or partners, vocational stress, and others. I am looking forward to working with you!