About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 17 years of clinical experience. She draws on practical, evidence-informed methods to help people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, trauma, and parenting challenges.
Mary aims to create a calm, steady space where clients can talk through what feels overwhelming and learn concrete skills to cope with everyday life. Mary uses approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions, and connection.
Background and approach
She often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-oriented work and attachment-informed tools. That mix helps people manage symptoms like worry, low mood, anger, and sleep problems while also looking at patterns in close relationships. Her experience includes helping people with grief, addiction, self-esteem, career stress, and complex histories such as abandonment, adoption, or trauma.
She also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and difficulties with intimacy or body image. Sessions focus on small, practical steps so progress feels manageable. Mary emphasizes collaboration.
She listens for each person’s priorities and tailors sessions to match goals and pace. Therapy may include skill practice, values clarification, or communication work depending on what the client needs. People can expect clear explanations and hands-on tools rather than abstract theory.
Mary supports those navigating major life changes, caregiving strain, or recovery from abuse, helping them build routines and coping strategies that fit their daily life.
How therapy approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting pushed around by them and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for worries, stress, and life changes where feeling stuck is common. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches simple skills to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and respond to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will pick methods and pace that feel manageable, mixing skill practice, values work, and relational exploration as needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for short check-ins or supplemental support. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping the focus on steady progress and usable tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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