About Akinlana
Akinlana Burrowes helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or trauma. She is Akinlana Burrowes, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with an MA and credentials as an LMHC and an LCMHC. She works with people who struggle with low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and big life changes.
Her practice combines talk therapy with expressive arts and body-based methods. Sessions often use gentle mindfulness and practical skills from cognitive behavioral approaches.
How Akinlana works
EMDR is also part of the range of approaches she uses when trauma and difficult memories are involved. She pays attention to how systemic issues and prejudice affect mental health. This means she supports people facing multicultural stress, discrimination, and the unique pressures those bring.
She also helps with workplace issues, money and financial worries, and concerns linked to relationships like infidelity or communication problems. Her background includes work across cultures and settings, and she has experience using music, movement, visual art, drama, and poetry alongside traditional psychotherapy.
That experience informs a flexible way of working that adapts to how each person prefers to process and express themselves. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. The aim is to help people feel validated and regain a sense of direction, whether that looks like managing panic attacks, reducing social anxiety, or building self-love.
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What Akinlana works with
The areas below are the ones Akinlana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Akinlana brings therapy and expressive work online
Akinlana uses client-centered therapy to follow the person’s lead and create space for what matters most. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping the individual direct the pace and topics of sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers concrete tools for changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and coping skills useful for intense emotions and anger.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and any previous experiences with therapy to decide which methods to try. That may mean combining talk work, skills practice, mindfulness, or art-based exercises during sessions to find what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different circumstances. Video works well for deeper conversations and guided exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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