About Akilah
Akilah Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD. Her work emphasizes practical tools people can use between sessions to handle daily challenges.
She trained in counseling at Sam Houston State University and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Texas. Over her career she has supported adults dealing with trauma, grief, mood disorders, and the fallout from family problems.
Background and approach
She also has experience connected to foster care and adoption contexts. In sessions she centers the person in front of her. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and works collaboratively to set goals.
Conversations are aimed at building skills, reducing distress, and strengthening communication patterns. Akilah draws on several practical approaches, including client-centered strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements from the Gottman Method and dialectical behavior approaches. She mixes methods to fit what a client needs rather than following one fixed model.
Clients can expect clear, concrete suggestions and practice assignments when those are useful. Akilah pays attention to cultural background and life context when tailoring plans. Her goal is to help people feel heard, gain confidence, and take steps toward changes they want to make.
How specific approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. The therapist asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps clients name their goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and teaches clear strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help with strong mood swings and impulsivity.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust plans over time. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging make it easier to have shorter check-ins or to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside work, school, or family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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