About Akilah
Akilah Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of practice based in Texas. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Akilah aims to help people gain the tools and skills they need to meet their own goals.
She centers the person's experience and listens first to understand what matters most to them. Akilah draws on a range of approaches to fit each person's needs rather than using a single method.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered work to follow the person's lead and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address patterns that keep problems repeating. Elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing are used when people need help with emotion regulation or finding motivation for change. Her background includes work with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders.
She also has experience with attachment and parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges such as ADHD, panic, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and self-harm. Family of origin and relationship difficulties are also common topics in her practice. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and manageable steps toward goals.
Akilah respects a person's culture and life story when choosing interventions and sets goals together with the person in session. Progress often looks like learning new coping strategies and testing them between appointments. People who reach out can expect a straightforward, respectful approach.
Akilah works to help people feel heard, build confidence in decision-making, and take small concrete steps toward changes they want to make.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. In practice this means sessions start by inviting the person to describe what matters and then shaping goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, addresses unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it often involves setting small experiments and practicing new skills between sessions to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that match the person's goals, needs, and preferences. If something isn't helpful, they will adjust the plan together and introduce different techniques to see what works best.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat helps with brief check-ins or written reflection, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, continue work during life changes, and practice skills in between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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