About Wanda
Wanda Olugbala is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 30 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who give a lot to others and now feel worn down. Wanda aims to restore balance and help clients reclaim energy and purpose.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She partners with people to find practical steps they can use right away. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small changes, and steady progress rather than long, abstract talk.
Background and approach
Wanda mixes approaches that look at thoughts, relationships, and life stories. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to shift unhelpful thinking. She also draws on narrative and psychodynamic ideas to notice repeating patterns in relationships and personal history.
Clients can expect tools for boundary setting, self-care routines, and coping with stress or burnout. Wanda often helps people untangle family of origin issues, navigate grief, manage anger, or cope with life changes. She also supports concerns like ADHD, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and identity questions.
Sessions are offered from Michigan and conducted in English. Wanda works with clients to set clear, achievable steps and celebrates small wins along the way. The focus is practical: manageable strategies that fit into a busy life.
Approaches and Online Options for Practical Change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without being ruled by them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for burnout, life transitions, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and impulsivity. Narrative Therapy pays attention to the stories people tell about their lives and helps rewrite those stories so they support healthier choices and clearer self understanding.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wanda will work with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, daily life demands, and what feels most helpful. Together they set practical targets and try out techniques, then adjust as needed to keep progress moving.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for in depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check in or lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter updates and tools between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain regular contact, fit sessions into a busy schedule, and try different ways of working to find what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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