About Ekaette
Ekaette 'Kate' Atakpo is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Oklahoma. She has three years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges around identity and purpose. She works with individuals who want to build stronger coping skills and clearer self-understanding.
Kate favors a straightforward, compassionate style in sessions. She listens first and helps clients name what matters most to them. Conversations emphasize practical steps and small, doable changes rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people navigating life transitions, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with panic attacks, mood swings, and the emotional fallout of difficult relationships. Multicultural concerns and experiences related to LGBT identity are part of her practice focus.
Therapeutic methods Kate uses include cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and take action, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. She adapts these tools to each person’s needs and pace. Sessions happen online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
International clients who speak English may work with her. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling through the service interface.
How Kate Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action toward those values even when hard feelings show up. It can help with anxiety, stress, and uncertainty by shifting attention from avoiding feelings to living a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and test them with real-world experiments. CBT is useful for panic attacks, anxiety, low mood, and changing behaviors that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try techniques together to see what fits. Over time sessions can mix ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and client-centered conversation based on what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let clients see nonverbal cues and work through skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can make scheduling easier during work breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short check-ins, written reflections, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it possible to practice new skills between sessions and keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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