About Augustina
Augustina Garba welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, or issues with self-esteem. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than two decades of experience. Her approach aims to help people feel safer, more capable, and more able to move toward the life they want.
She listens first and works at a steady pace. Sessions include talking through what is hard now and trying small, practical steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Augustina uses mindful awareness and values-based actions so people can notice what matters and take manageable steps toward it. Her background includes many years in community mental health and independent practice. Early work involved adults with serious mental illness and children who had experienced neglect and abuse.
Those experiences shaped a long-term focus on trauma, mood disorders, and family dynamics. Augustina supports people facing relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, blended family challenges, and the fallout from past abuse. She often combines cognitive-behavioral tools with emotionally-focused conversations to help people change patterns that get in the way of connection and well-being.
In sessions she offers straightforward teaching, practical homework, and steady feedback. The aim is to restore a sense of self-efficacy and build habits that reduce anger, impulsivity, or intense worry. She strives to create a reliable therapeutic relationship that helps people make lasting changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that line up with those values while learning to live alongside difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for mood problems, anxiety, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions in relationships and improving how people connect and respond to one another, which can aid intimacy and communication issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and test methods that fit their needs and preferences. That process may combine elements from different approaches to suit what works best in real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when they want that connection. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing written work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress even when in-person meetings are hard to arrange.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Minnesota
- Languages
- English