About Makeba
Makeba Terrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with eight years of experience. She focuses on relationship concerns and common emotional struggles such as anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. Her work centers on helping people improve communication and regain balance after life changes.
She approaches sessions in a straightforward, respectful way. Makeba listens first, then helps people identify patterns that make things harder. She offers practical tools for handling conflict, managing stress, and rebuilding confidence.
Background and approach
Clients can expect conversations that address both feelings and day-to-day problems. Makeba helps people talk through intimacy-related issues, codependency, abandonment worries, and commitment doubts. She also supports those facing caregiver strain, issues related to cancer, and first responder stress.
Her background includes focused practice with couples and adults dealing with separation, infidelity, and family conflict. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts methods to a person’s needs rather than relying on one fixed approach. Sessions can include step-by-step skills, communication practice, and planning for real-life challenges.
Makeba aims to make therapy useful and doable for people juggling busy lives. She encourages small, sustainable changes that build healthier relationships and stronger self-worth.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Makeba draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life practice. One approach emphasizes communication training where people learn specific ways to speak and listen that reduce conflict and build emotional connection. This helps with intimacy issues, commitment doubts, and repeated relationship fights.Another common thread is problem-focused work for mood and anxiety. Sessions break down stressors into manageable steps, teach coping strategies, and build routines that make everyday life feel more steady. That style is useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which techniques fit best and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for full conversations and practice exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or short skill work during a busy day. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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