About Akamin
Dr. Akamin Nkengaka is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and low self-esteem. He uses straightforward, evidence-informed techniques to help clients make small changes that add up to real relief.
He emphasizes the client's strengths and practical steps over jargon-filled therapy talk. Dr. Nkengaka draws on cognitive approaches to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
He also uses acceptance-based methods to help people tolerate difficult feelings while taking meaningful action.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills, clarity, and steps clients can try between meetings. He prefers a collaborative style. The therapist listens first, then helps shape a plan that fits each person’s life and goals.
Progress is measured in concrete shifts - less avoidance, clearer choices, or better daily routines - rather than vague milestones. With 15 years of experience, his practice addresses a wide range of concerns beyond core anxiety and mood issues. These include attachment challenges, caregiving stress, body image, chronic illness and pain, and substance-related concerns.
He works with overlapping problems that often come together rather than appearing alone. Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. Therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The subscription model used by sessions can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the site’s matching and booking flow.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for ongoing anxiety, avoidance, and situations where someone wants to live differently despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that keep anxiety and depression going. It often includes practice tasks to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness; it can help when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors make daily life harder.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then combine methods that fit their situation. Treatment is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are good for short updates, skill coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress across distance.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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