About Akemi
Akemi McGoogan is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 18 years of experience to practical work on mood, motivation, and everyday functioning. Akemi uses straightforward guidance aimed at moving people from feeling stuck toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
She earned a Master of Social Work in Direct Practice from SUNY Albany and a Bachelor of Social Work from North Carolina Central University.
Background and approach
Akemi holds the Georgia LCSW credential and also lists CSW. Her background includes a range of settings and many years supporting adults through life transitions and career concerns. Akemi uses hands-on methods that help people change unhelpful thinking and build workable routines.
She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are part of her approach when people need skills for managing strong emotions. She describes herself as motivational and goal-oriented, encouraging practical steps and small habit changes.
Akemi also writes short guided resources for parents, including journal prompts and mindful exercises. Those resources reflect her emphasis on simple, doable practices. Her work covers many common concerns - low mood, anxiety, relationship stress, parenting strain, grief, career uncertainty, sleep problems, and attention difficulties.
She aims to collaborate with each person to set clear, achievable goals and to build everyday tools that fit their life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction and more meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills for changing thought patterns and behaviors that reinforce anxiety or low mood. It usually involves setting small experiments and habit changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Akemi treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try strategies that fit their needs, and adjust methods as progress is made. That collaborative process helps pinpoint which techniques work best for an individual's situation.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow a full face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use written reflection when typing feels more comfortable. These flexible formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and care responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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