About Ijeoma
Ijeoma Onyejiaka is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and ADHD. She speaks English and Igbo and brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is direct, practical, and focused on what a person needs now.
She offers short-term strategies and longer-term work depending on goals. Sessions often include skills for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and improving everyday functioning like sleep and focus.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship strains, grief, self-esteem, and career or parenting stress. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify patterns and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports expressing and organizing feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current relationships and reactions. The work is collaborative.
She helps people set clear goals, practices skills together in session, and adapts tools to fit cultural background and life demands. Expect a mix of talking, exercises, and homework focused on real-life problems. Ijeoma’s training and years of practice shape a calm, structured presence.
She centers each person’s identity and story when choosing interventions. People come to her for help with coping through life changes, improving communication, and finding routines that support daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters most. It can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation to try new routines. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new responses to improve mood, sleep, and focus. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and connections, which can help with intimacy, grief, and recurring relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and everyday challenges, then use one or more approaches together. This is a collaborative process that adjusts over time as goals change or progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that include exercises and observing emotional responses. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share updates between sessions or get support when writing feels easier. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Igbo
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