About Amaka
Amaka Agulue is a New York licensed mental health counselor with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Amaka also offers coaching to help with motivation, life direction, and work-related challenges.
Her style is straightforward and strengths-focused. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them put their strengths to use.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at clear goals like reducing anxious moments, boosting confidence, or finding direction in midlife. Amaka draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to make sessions useful and goal-oriented. She helps clients understand patterns that come from attachment and family of origin, and she addresses concerns such as obsessive thoughts, compulsions, and trichotillomania in practical ways.
Conversations often include skill-building and short-term tasks to try between sessions. She also supports people who want coaching related to career or executive functioning. Those sessions focus on motivation, planning, and skills to improve performance at work.
Amaka keeps the tone collaborative and action-focused so progress is measurable. People who choose her often want honest, direct guidance and clear steps they can use day to day. She speaks English and works with adults by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Amaka is based in New York and holds a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Amaka uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on reducing anxiety and improving day-to-day coping. One approach emphasizes learning practical skills to manage anxious thoughts and physical tension, helping people interrupt worry cycles and regain control over daily tasks. Another approach addresses trauma and attachment-related patterns by identifying how past experiences shape current reactions and building new, healthier responses to stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Amaka collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The therapist and client regularly check in to see what is helping and what to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when interaction matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, and quick problem-solving when time is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical steps toward reduced anxiety and better daily functioning.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Self-love
- Trichotillomania
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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