About Ijeoma
Ijeoma Onyejiaka is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, self-esteem, depression, and relationship and family concerns. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and offers therapy in English and Igbo. Ijeoma practices in Texas and also works with international clients via online sessions.
Her approach blends several practical methods. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance-based techniques to help clients live by their values even when feelings are painful. Attachment-focused work informs how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional bonds. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward.
She listens to what matters most and helps people set clear, achievable goals. Interventions are adapted to each person’s life, culture, and relationships rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Ijeoma has a background in systemic and family-oriented work and a doctoral candidacy in Marriage and Family Therapy is noted in her original materials.
She uses that perspective to assess how roles and communication shape problems like parenting stress, grief, or coping with major life changes. People who come for help may work on managing mood swings, improving communication, reducing compulsive behaviors, or building healthier coping skills. Therapy combines talk-based strategies, experiential techniques, and value-driven exercises to support lasting change.
Approaches for online work and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking steps toward them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy identifies patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce symptoms and build practical coping skills for worries, mood swings, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape emotional responses and communication. It can be useful for intimacy-related issues, trust concerns, and family dynamics.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, then suggest or combine methods that match those needs. This is done together so the plan fits the client's situation and moves at a comfortable pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and text or chat can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping continuity of care across distances.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Igbo