About Manilla
Manilla Jenkins helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or addiction take the first steps toward change. She focuses on building confidence, improving relationships, and finding practical ways to manage mood and sleep. Manilla speaks plainly and meets people where they are in the moment.
Manilla has 30 years of professional experience as an LPC, licensed in Alabama. She centers sessions on the client's priorities and strengths rather than assuming one right answer.
How Manilla works
Conversations are collaborative, paced to what the person can handle, and focused on real-life changes. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and a variety of addiction struggles. She also helps people facing chronic pain, body image worries, money stress, and obsessive behaviors.
Sessions often include practical tools for panic, phobias, and sleep problems. Manilla draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different actions. She blends mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to boost willingness and sustain progress.
The Gottman Method informs her approach when relationship patterns are a concern. Sessions aim to be straightforward and skills-focused while holding space for emotions. The therapist works to help each person set achievable goals and track small wins.
Her style is steady, respectful, and oriented toward everyday improvements.
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What Manilla works with
The areas below are the ones Manilla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Manilla often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the person's goals. This approach helps people feel heard and build on their own strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy is another main tool; it identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and problem habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose methods that match needs and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video calls allow fuller interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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