Kayla Karesh

Founder & Therapist @Create Wellbeing Therapy Collective

San Diego, CA, US

For over 20 years, Kayla has passionately served with warmth as a clinician and leader, supporting integrative care to the whole person (mind-body-spirit), the whole family, and the whole community. Kayla has held program director, clinical director, and executive director roles at various treatment programs, as well as providing private practice care.Kayla’s approach is to therapy is to compassionately embrace the beauty of our lived stories, understanding how they shape who we are, and how they are held in our bodies, families, and communities. Kayla takes an integrative systems approach, supporting the creation of wellbeing through depthful strategies to calm, engage, and integrate the parts of us that are burdened, providing resources and connection to bring about restoration to the whole person.

Loyola Marymount University

MA, Marital and Family Therapy, Art Therapy

Fuller Theological Seminary

MAT, Theology

Azusa Pacific University

BA, English, Religion