About Ijeoma
Ijeoma Onyejiaka is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 11 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, addiction, trauma, grief, and problems with self-esteem and intimacy. She also supports clients navigating parenting strain, career changes, ADHD challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Ijeoma offers therapy in English and Igbo and accepts international clients. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what feels most useful to each person.
How Ijeoma works
She blends practical problem-solving with space to make sense of strong emotions and painful memories. Clients work on skills for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and steadier daily routines. Ijeoma draws from several evidence-informed approaches to shape treatment.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy guide work on relational patterns and emotional connection.
She adapts methods to fit each person's culture, identity, and life story. Therapy is paced to match readiness, with concrete tools and in-session practice. Ijeoma aims for steady progress toward goals like better sleep, improved relationships, reduced anxiety, or healthier coping after loss.
Practical concerns such as scheduling, session format, and how to start are handled up front. Prospective clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their timing and needs.
Ijeoma lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Ijeoma works with
The areas below are the ones Ijeoma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| 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 therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and when someone wants practical change tied to what they care about. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early experiences shape current connections, which helps with intimacy and communication struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which strategies to try first and adjust the plan over time based on what is most useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full sessions that include exercises and eye contact, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break. Live chat and messaging are handy for brief check-ins, homework, or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make ongoing care more flexible and easier to schedule.
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