About Abisola
Abisola Adepegba helps people facing relationship strain, family conflict, grief and loss, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes. She also supports concerns around trauma and abuse, intimacy, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and LGBT issues. Abisola lists LMHC, MD, LCPC as her credentials and brings practical care to each conversation.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that can fit into a busy life. The aim is to build tools that make daily challenges easier to handle. With 12 years of experience, Abisola adapts plans to what a person needs now.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and matches methods to each situation. That can mean shorter skill-focused work or deeper, longer-term conversations depending on the issue. People meet her to talk through parenting stress, grief after loss, or to manage mood and anxiety.
She also offers support for career concerns, caregiver fatigue, body image, and attachment or adoption-related worries. Discussions address practical choices and emotional coping together. Abisola practices from Maryland and offers multiple remote session formats.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people feel heard and guided toward the next step. If someone wants help sorting priorities and finding workable strategies, she can help map a path forward.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Evidence-based techniques are used to address specific problems with clear steps. For example, problem-focused therapy breaks concerns into concrete parts and teaches skills to manage them. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, parenting struggles, and day-to-day coping by building practical tools and routines.Another common approach uses emotion-focused techniques to help people understand and regulate strong feelings. This helps when grief, anger, intimacy problems, or trauma responses make it hard to move forward. Sessions look at patterns, name emotions, and practice new responses so feelings feel more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That plan can change over time as needs shift and progress is noticed.
Online sessions can be convenient and flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging offers brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and daily tasks.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English