About Makeda
Makeda Kahlein is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with nine years of clinical experience. She began her academic path in forensic psychology and completed a graduate degree in community counseling with a marriage and family therapy concentration. She is currently working toward a Doctorate in Counseling Education and Supervision.
Makeda brings a steady, practical presence to sessions and focuses on helping people move forward from difficult moments.
Background and approach
Her approach is conversational and person-focused. She listens first, then offers tools that fit each person's situation. Sessions often center on identifying priorities, building coping skills, and testing small changes between meetings.
This makes therapy feel concrete and doable rather than overwhelming. Makeda works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, and ADHD. She also helps people facing life changes, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and family-of-origin struggles.
Her experience includes work with blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, and compassion fatigue. In practice she draws from client-centered methods, existential ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and psychodynamic perspectives. That mix lets her tailor sessions to a person's goals and preferences.
The tone in the room is collaborative, respectful, and focused on practical progress. Makeda offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She sees people through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person to the best scheduling option.
How Makeda’s Approaches Fit Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and pace. In practice she listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, then helps shape sessions around those priorities. This approach suits issues like anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and self-esteem by keeping the focus on the person’s real-life goals.Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, change-focused method that helps people resolve mixed feelings and build motivation. It can be useful for addictions, habit change, and career or life transitions because it breaks change into manageable steps and clarifies personal reasons to act.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Makeda will discuss these styles and tailor a plan based on a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions or use a brief format for shorter updates. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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