About Sylvia
Sylvia Akingbade is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers steady support for everyday struggles like low self-esteem, grief, anger, parenting strain, and work pressures. Sylvia speaks English and works with clients in person and online, including international clients.
Sylvia draws on eight years of experience in mental health settings. She centers sessions on each person's goals and priorities. That means the conversation follows what matters most to the client, while she offers tools and feedback when helpful.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral strategies with client-centered care. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Client-Centered Therapy gives the client space to lead, with the therapist offering empathy and respect.
Sylvia also uses elements of mindfulness and dialectical behavior approaches to teach coping skills for intense emotion and stress. She can work with people dealing with family conflict, caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt, and struggles with self-love and forgiveness. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps people can try between meetings.
Sylvia aims to help clients build skills for managing anxiety, improving relationships, and coping with life changes. She welcomes questions and supports people as they take small steps toward their goals.
Online approaches and how they help
Sylvia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is helpful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress by giving clear strategies to practice between sessions.She also practices Client-Centered Therapy, which prioritizes the client's perspective and lets the person lead the pace and topics of therapy. This approach helps people feel heard and makes it easier to explore personal values, relationships, and life purpose.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Sylvia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and personal style. That decision can shift over time as goals change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or work better when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, on-the-go support, and a way to reflect in writing. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit regular life and different comfort levels with being on camera.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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