About Chinwe
Chinwe Nzerue-Obi is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas who brings ten years of helping people through hard seasons. She draws on a background in law and counseling to listen, ask clear questions, and work with each person toward real change. She earned a master's degree from the University of Houston Victoria and holds licensure as an LPC in Texas.
Before moving into counseling, she practiced law in Nigeria and completed legal training there, which informs her careful, organized approach to problem solving.
How Chinwe works
Chinwe often uses solution-focused techniques to help people make quick, practical changes when they need relief fast. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety, depression, and anger. Her work covers many common concerns, including stress, relationship struggles, grief, addictions, parenting stress, and challenges with self-esteem.
She also supports people facing trauma, eating or sleeping problems, career transitions, and coping with life changes like separation or loss. Sessions are offered in English and Igbo, and she meets with people across state and national lines. Her style is direct and hopeful - she aims to help people set small goals, try practical steps, and track progress toward feeling better.
Chinwe lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Chinwe works with
The areas below are the ones Chinwe selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Igbo |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Chinwe uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns in their thinking and behavior, then practice small changes that reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. CBT is practical and often involves homework like tracking thoughts or testing new behaviors in everyday situations.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy, which emphasizes quick, goal-oriented steps. This approach helps people identify what would look different if things were better and then try small, doable changes to move toward that outcome.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust methods and pace so the work fits the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy days. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls can be a good shorter option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility to match the format to the task at hand.
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