About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage strong emotions and life changes. She is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with 17 years of experience based in New Jersey. Mary focuses on clear, down-to-earth work that helps people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Mary draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide sessions. She explains ideas simply and offers concrete tools people can try between meetings.
How Olayinka works
Sessions include talking through recent struggles, practicing new ways to respond, and setting small goals that build confidence. Her focus covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, anger, addictions, parenting strain, and relationship issues. Additional areas include body image, caregiver stress, attachment difficulties, and coping with life transitions.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar concerns, and communication problems. Mary emphasizes collaboration. She helps people name what matters, pick approaches that fit, and adjust plans as progress is made.
The tone in her work is respectful and direct, aimed at making therapy useful in daily life. Sessions are available in English and can be scheduled to match a person’s needs. She welcomes international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to find the right fit and schedule sessions.
Olayinka lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Olayinka works with
The areas below are the ones Olayinka selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them drive behavior. It focuses on values and small, doable actions so people can move toward what matters despite hard emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and aims to build more supported ways of relating and regulating emotion.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what needs a different direction.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging help people share quickly between sessions or manage steady support when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel commitments while keeping the focus on real-world progress.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with OlayinkaWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What concerns does Mary commonly address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I start working with Mary?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for family
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions