About Akilah
Akilah Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. She draws on her academic training and years of work with adults to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Akilah works with individuals on relationship challenges, parenting concerns, grief, trauma, and mood fluctuations including bipolar disorder.
Akilah earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Texas, and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Sam Houston State University with a focus in Marriage and Family Therapy.
How Akilah works
She holds LPC credentials in Texas and Arizona and has practical experience using cognitive behavioral approaches and the Gottman Method to guide therapy. Her style centers on treating people as the experts of their own lives. She focuses on building skills, identifying goals, and creating steps clients can use between sessions.
Sessions blend practical skill-building with space to process feelings and past experiences. Akilah has worked with adults facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, substance-related issues, ADHD, and family-of-origin problems. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, body image, impulsivity, isolation, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth approach that aims to validate feelings while helping them find strategies that lead to real change. The therapist emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and tools clients can use in daily life.
Akilah lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Akilah works with
The areas below are the ones Akilah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches for online work and what to expect
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. It helps people explore their goals and build confidence while the therapist follows the client’s lead and offers support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to manage anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive thoughts. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can help with impulsivity, intense emotions, and self-harm tendencies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which methods fit best for their needs and goals. Together they will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most and what feels workable in daily life.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in or continue work between longer sessions. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to use consistently.
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