About Somaya
Somaya Kalla offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She greets each person with steadiness and simple tools to cope.
Background and approach
Somaya is based in California and practices as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She keeps sessions practical and grounded.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and what helps you feel steadier. Somaya listens for patterns that cause pain, like attachment wounds, abandonment fears, or trouble with communication.
Then she helps people try new ways of responding to those patterns. Somaya has three years of clinical experience.
In that time she has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, domestic violence, and substance use concerns. She also helps with relationship strain, separation and divorce, mood disorders, and the emotional fallout after disasters.
Her work combines straightforward skills practice with attention to how early family relationships still affect daily life. People can expect to learn breathing and grounding methods, ways to notice thinking that increases shame or guilt, and practical communication techniques to reduce conflict.
Sessions are offered in English and Arabic and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Somaya aims to meet people where they are and to build small, manageable steps toward feeling more in control and connected.
Evidence-informed approaches for online therapy
Somaya uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, teachable skills. One approach emphasizes practical coping strategies such as grounding, breathing, and short behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and manage mood. These techniques help when stress or panic make everyday tasks hard to complete.Another common focus is attachment-informed work that looks at how early relationships shape current responses. This helps people notice patterns like abandonment fears, difficulty trusting, or repeated communication breakdowns, and then practice new, healthier interactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and make adjustments along the way.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can work when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and practice new skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Arabic