About Manilla
Manilla Jenkins is a licensed professional counselor in Alabama with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and encouraging for people ready to make changes.
She views each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions begin by listening closely to what matters most and what has already worked. From there she helps clients set small, clear goals and tries practical steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Manilla draws from approaches like client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and the Gottman Method. That mix lets her combine skill-building with attention to emotions and the give-and-take of close relationships. She uses tools to address sleep problems, self-esteem, obsessional thoughts, and addictive behaviors.
Many people come for help with chronic pain, body image, codependency, or trouble with money and career choices. She also supports people dealing with trauma, abandonment issues, infidelity, and intimacy concerns. Sessions aim to increase coping skills, improve communication, and build self-love.
Her work is practical and supportive. Manilla meets clients where they are and helps them move at a pace they can manage. She encourages steady progress through small, repeatable changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Manilla often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, phobias, and sleep troubles. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and helping people tap their own strengths and values to find solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she tailors methods so they fit the person’s life and pace, making adjustments as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and relationship work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can work well for quick check-ins or ongoing prompts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English