About Wanda
Wanda Olugbala is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who have spent themselves caring for others and now feel worn out, overwhelmed, or stuck. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at getting daily life back on track.
Wanda draws on straightforward talk and concrete strategies to ease stress and anxiety. She helps clients identify thought patterns that fuel low mood or burnout.
How Wanda works
Sessions include goal setting, boundary work, and small steps that add up to sustainable change. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods with attention to personal history. That means looking at how past relationships shape current patterns while also practicing new skills in the moment.
The work often moves between understanding where difficulties come from and trying out different ways to respond. Wanda also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, identity concerns, and life transitions. She pays attention to how caregiving roles can wear a person down and helps rebuild energy and purpose.
Practical self-care is matched with clearer priorities and limits. In sessions she uses collaborative problem solving rather than lecturing. Clients leave with tools they can use between appointments.
Progress is tracked in concrete ways so small gains are noticed and built on.
Wanda lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Wanda works with
The areas below are the ones Wanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Wanda commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and when life feels out of sync. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; it teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Wanda will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats that choice as collaborative and adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support ongoing contact, quick check-ins, and exercises between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue consistent work over time.
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