This is a space to soften, slow down, and return home to yourself.
It can feel exhausting to hold so much…trying to balance work, relationships, and all the pieces of life—while somewhere inside, your heart is craving space to breathe, move, and feel free.
It can feel exhausting to hold so much…trying to balance work, relationships, and all the pieces of life—while a part of you is craving space to take deeper breaths, move the energy, and feel free.
We’ll listen for what your body and heart are asking for.
We’ll gently soften the old patterns that are holding you back.
We’ll tend to your nervous system with intention and love.
And we’ll help you to begin to come home to yourself again
Maybe you’ve noticed yourself shrinking in relationships.
Maybe you feel disconnected from your body’s truth.
Maybe your intuition has become silenced beneath the noise of “shoulds.”
Maybe you’re just tired of holding it all together on your own.
You don’t have to.
Through intuitive, embodied therapy and coaching, we’ll gently soften the old patterns together.
We’ll listen for what your body and heart are asking for—and begin to come home to yourself again.
We’ll move with curiosity — not judgment — as you reconnect with your lifeforce, your wholeness, your wild knowing.
This is a space to come home to yourself — with tenderness, honesty, and joy.
Reclaim your confidence and live authentically
I’ll be your guide to empowered healing, bringing compassion, clarity, and connection into every session. Together, we’ll create a uniquely intuitive path that helps you rediscover your authentic self and build the life you truly deserve.
Imagine a life where you trust yourself fully, feel empowered in your decisions, and experience true peace in your relationships. Picture a version of yourself that radiates confidence and is deeply connected to your sensuality (with life itself).
Together, we’ll explore what’s been holding you back, uncover your inner truths, and create a path forward that feels aligned with your authentic self. Along the way, you’ll build self-trust, clarity, and confidence to create the life and relationships you truly desire. You will expand your capacity to navigate life challenges in a grounded and compassionate way.
“Kyla is patient, supportive and insightful. I was reluctant to go back to therapy after seeing a therapist that was not helpful. With Kyla, I have been able to uncover and work with difficult issues and get back in touch with important aspects of myself. I have made tremendous progress with her. She uses a variety of techniques depending on my needs, approaches her work with curiosity, and has shown me how being curious can deepen my connections with others.”
I’m Kyla Suarez,
I am a licensed therapist and embodiment coach devoted to walking alongside you on your path of self-discovery.
With deep compassion and authenticity, I hold space for you to meet your shadows with love and to reclaim the parts of yourself you’ve hidden, silenced, or denied.
Blending therapeutic wisdom with soulful education, this approach invites you into deeper self-understanding and embodied confidence.
Your inner wisdom already holds the answers; my role is to help you listen, trust, and remember to build the inner safety needed to surrender, expand, and bloom into the fullness of who you truly are.
In our work together, you’ll uncover unconscious patterns, tend to the inner child, and reconnect with the body as a source of truth and power. I use a holistic, trauma-informed framework rooted in somatic therapy, shadow work, and nervous system regulation designed to liberate the mind, body, heart, and soul.
Why I Practice the Way I Do
A journey shaped by clinical practice, grief, lived experience and community healing
new title, positive (advocate) for change in mental health systems, simplify
My work in mental health began in 2011, immediately after completing my undergraduate degree, when I started working at an inpatient substance use treatment facility leading group therapy for adolescents. A few years later, I transitioned into working with adult women within the same program. During this time, my stepfather was diagnosed with cancer, a life event that quietly but profoundly shifted my awareness. I began to explore holistic health more deeply—moving my body through yoga, eating more intentionally, and noticing how lifestyle, grief, and stress impacted both mental and physical well-being.
It was during this period that I entered graduate school for mental health counseling. After completing my degree coursework, I began working at a private residential mental health program that supported individuals living in service-supported, 24/7 housing as an alternative to long-term state psychiatric facilities. This work further solidified my understanding that true healing requires more than symptom management—it requires safety and a sense of wholeness; seeing the individual completely entirely.
As my clinical work deepened, so did my commitment to embodied wellness. I completed a yoga teacher training program and began offering yoga and pranayama to clients, witnessing firsthand how powerful nervous system regulation and body-based practices could be when integrated with therapy. During this time, I also stepped into a case management role within the Central Vermont CRT program while finishing graduate school and my yoga training. Shortly thereafter, my stepfather passed away—an experience that became a turning point both personally and professionally.
In 2015, I graduated from graduate school and my yoga teacher training, and I began to clearly see the limitations of the traditional mental health model and the regulations that community and state organizations “had to follow”. So much of the field felt overly cognitive, disconnected from the body, and fragmented from the soul. I felt called to do something different. Something that felt more impactful and something that felt more aligned for me and my beliefs.
I left those systems and became the head school counselor at a residential school program for adolescents (for a short time before seeing similar challenges), while also creating a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Vermont Be True, which was dedicated to providing access to yoga, wellness, and mental health services for under-resourced and underrepresented communities. Alongside this work, my partner and I opened our home to support individuals within the state mental health programs, offering caregiving and relational stability in a more community-homebased way.
Eventually, I transitioned out of these programs entirely and fully into a mental health counseling private practice of my own while I continued developing Vermont Be True, and co-operated Milldale Farm Center for Wellness, a community-centered space for healing, connection, and embodiment. From 2017–2022, I co-founded and helped lead the Vermont Be True Yoga Festival, a multi-day immersive fundraiser that brought together yoga, meditation, music, ceremony, bodywork, workshops, healing arts, and nature-based experiences. Over six years, the festival became a space where people from around the world gathered to reconnect with themselves, build authentic community, and serve something larger than themselves.
After years of holding many roles—therapist, nonprofit director, retreat leader, festival organizer, and space-holder—I reached a moment that asked for simplification. Closing the businesses created space for reflection, integration, and a moment to slow down and engage in self care in a deeper way. This allowed me to return to what matters most and to continue my education as both a professional and a human figuring it out.
Today, I work as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, offering trauma-informed, somatic, and relational therapy grounded in nervous system healing, embodiment, and self-trust. My work is deeply influenced by Internal Family Systems, EMDR, yoga philosophy, and years of lived experience inside both clinical systems and community-based healing spaces.
My vision moving forward is to continue offering therapy that honors the whole person—mind, body, and soul—while expanding into retreats, workshops (in-person and virtually), and creative containers that support women in reconnecting to their bodies, their truth, and their innate wisdom. Everything I offer now is shaped by where I’ve been: years of clinical work, community leadership, grief, devotion, and a deep belief that healing happens when we feel safe enough to come home to ourselves.
“Kyla and I have been working together since 2023. Throughout the therapeutic process, Kyla’s approach has felt person-centered, inclusive, and affirming. As transgender/queer identified person this has helped me to feel safe and access healing in therapy more fully.”
Testimonials
“Kyla’s skilled and compassionate use of this intervention has helped me to feel liberated in living authentically, while accessing deep healing of emotional wounds. Kyla infuses our sessions with empathy, joy, and validation. I feel very lucky to have found such a skilled clinician to work with”
“Working with Kyla is a deep experience. Using different techniques, she encourages exploration in an open, nonjudgmental and creative way. Kyla is truly brilliant with her insights and approach. She is also approachable and a pleasure to work with—I look forward to our weekly sessions in a way I didn’t think was possible in therapy! Working with Kyla has allowed me to make more progress towards my best life than I ever thought possible, including my relationships, work and creative outlets. I am truly grateful for our work together. ”
“I cannot recommend my therapist, Kyla Suarez, highly enough. Kyla has guided me to the most tender and complex layers of my inner life with a gentleness and clarity that never waver. She holds a steady vision of my purest, highest, most golden self, showing me not only that it exists but that it is truly mine. She speaks to the damaged parts of me with such compassion and respect that I feel safe enough to grow toward that golden potential.
The way Kyla integrates EMDR seamlessly into our conversations and my healing process has been incredibly effective. It has never felt like a technique performed on me, but rather an organic part of the journey, something that allows me to reach my feelings in a way that feels natural, empowering, and frankly, magical.
Kyla has led me through the tangled mess inside my head with completely loving gentleness, while also grounding the work with absolute skill and creating a sense of real security for me. Working with her has been transformative. I will forever be deeply grateful for the compassion, insight, and unwavering presence she has offered me, and I recommend her with my whole heart.”
“When I first started therapy with Kyla, I felt lost, miserable and disconnected from who I was, and I didn’t understand why. Working with her has truly changed my life. She helped me uncover the roots of my struggles and introduced me to tools and perspectives that have reshaped how I understand and care for myself. She has helped guide me into the deeper layers of healing, exploring my inner child, facing parts of myself I had long been ashamed of, and learning to meet them with compassion instead of criticism. Her calm grounded and non-judgmental presence created a safe and supportive space to explore and express myself freely.
Over time, through messy, imperfect consistency and not giving up on myself, I’ve gone from feeling lost and miserable to feeling more hopeful, balanced and empowered. I’m deeply grateful for the support Kyla’s provided in helping me reconnect with my true self; not the version I thought I had to be, but the one I was always meant to be.”
“Kyla Suarez is an amazing guide for both individuals and groups. She is kind and intuitive through all of her work! I love how Kyla embodies joy making it easier for her clients to find it within themselves. Her classes are uplifting, empowering and inspiring. She is gracious in holding space for others to safely and confidently explore the depths of themselves. Kyla is a blessing and a gift to this world!”
“As a retreat host and healer Kyla creates a peaceful, nurturing and healing space that allows for greater personal awareness and empowerment. Every detail is thoughtfully crafted and Kyla’s retreats offer an opportunity for reflection, growth and deep connection to yourself and others. Her love and passion for the well-being of others shines through.”
“Working with Kyla is like stepping into a sacred conversation—one that speaks not just to your mind, but to your body, your past, and the parts of yourself you didn’t know were waiting to be seen.
Her honesty is disarming in the best way. Her insights? Sharp, loving, and often exactly what I didn’t know I needed. She has a rare gift for emotional attunement that makes you feel profoundly safe—and profoundly seen. Whether we were out in nature or deep in the quiet work of the inner world, I’ve shared some of my most expansive adventures with Kyla. Her presence is steady and intuitive, grounded and lighthearted. With all the tools she brings, Kyla has helped me reconnect to parts of myself I’d left behind—and begin again, softer, braver, more whole.
If you’re lucky enough to cross paths with her, follow that thread. Healing with Kyla feels like remembering something ancient and true.”
“I recommend Kyla whole-heartedly. She listens deeply and has a honed intuition. I am always inspired by practitioners who do their own deep internal work, and it is clear to me that Kyla has done the introspective work that we as humans all benefit from. Kyla’s gentleness, compassion and tender heart are just a few of the reasons I would refer my friends and loved ones to her, for hands-on healing, retreats or anything Kyla has to offer.”