About Makini
Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, attention differences such as ADHD, and major life transitions. Her approach begins with listening and understanding each person's everyday struggles.
She creates a calm space where people can talk about their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Background and approach
Makini helps clients name what matters to them and set small steps toward change. Her work draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and cognitive behavioral techniques. She uses tools from these approaches to address communication problems, commitment concerns, and patterns that get in the way of closeness.
When intense emotions or overwhelm show up, she may use skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help stabilize the moment. Makini has also supported people with adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and issues related to autism spectrum traits. She attends to fatherhood concerns, family of origin wounds, and the impact of separation or divorce.
People who prefer a straightforward, empathetic style tend to do well with her. She encourages collaboration and practical problem solving, and she helps clients build realistic plans they can use between sessions.
Approach-driven care offered online
Makini uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people work through relationship and attention concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it can be useful for life transitions and feelings of emptiness. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust in relationships and helps people change how they relate to partners and close others.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a joint process. Makini works with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video is useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat lets people check in between sessions or use shorter touchpoints. These options offer flexibility so people can focus on recovery without rearranging their whole day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English