About Frank
Frank Ogbonna is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and depression. He frames therapy as a partnership and helps people take practical steps toward feeling more confident and motivated. He frames clients as the experts in their own stories and offers steady support while people work through change.
Frank has five years of professional experience in counseling. He draws on several well-known approaches to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
In conversation he helps clients name what matters most and set small, achievable goals to make progress between sessions. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Frank uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and purpose.
He also uses client-centered listening to create space for people to talk without judgment. Frank works with a broad range of life concerns beyond the core areas, including issues around abandonment, aging and geriatric concerns, communication problems, control struggles, substance misuse, family stress, guilt and shame, impulse control, and obsessive thoughts and behaviors.
He pays attention to multicultural concerns and men's issues where they come up in conversation. People who choose Frank can expect a practical, respectful approach that focuses on making small changes that add up. He helps clients translate insights into daily habits and supports them as they try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Frank integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps clarify personal values and build actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works well for quick check-ins, skill practice, or brief support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility so people can choose the way of working that best fits their routine and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English