About Akemi
Akemi McGoogan uses practical, goal-focused therapy to help people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with 18 years of experience. Akemi blends active coaching with compassionate listening to help clients find forward motion and clearer choices.
She trained with a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work in direct practice. As an LCSW she has worked across many settings and brings a straightforward, motivational style to sessions.
How Akemi works
She leans on evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, and mindfulness skills. In a typical session Akemi helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build small habits that make a difference. She also works on communication, boundaries, and practical steps for career or parenting challenges.
Sessions focus on small, doable changes rather than distant goals. Akemi has additional focus on adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, fertility and hospice-related stress. She also supports people dealing with grief, family of origin questions, blended family issues, and caregiver burnout.
Her style is warm, direct, and goal-oriented. She combines client-centered listening with concrete skills from CBT and DBT to manage strong emotions, sleep problems, anger, and attention challenges. Akemi published several short books for parents and postpartum support and aims to help people move from feeling stuck to feeling more capable.
Akemi lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Akemi works with
The areas below are the ones Akemi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Using practical therapy approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce distress and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for strong feelings and relationship strain.Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they decide which approach or combination will best fit the situation and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet those goals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and role-play exercises. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief coaching, homework check-ins, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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