About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju centers her work on practical, evidence-informed approaches. She combines methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Mary uses a straightforward style so parents and adults can quickly see what sessions will feel like.
Mary has 17 years of experience as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in New Jersey. She helps people cope with trauma and abuse, anger, grief, intimacy challenges, and issues tied to parenting and family dynamics.
Background and approach
She also supports work on eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, career questions, and substance-related concerns. Her practice pays attention to attachment and the effects of early relationships. That perspective informs work with abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, and caregiver stress.
Practical skills for emotional regulation and communication are common topics in sessions. Mary uses client-centered and collaborative methods. She listens for each person’s priorities and then offers tools drawn from DBT and CBT when they fit.
Sessions are a mix of talking, learning short exercises, and trying small experiments between meetings. She offers help for people navigating life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and co-occurring concerns. Sessions are offered in English and she sees international clients as well.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their needs.
How Mary brings ACT, CBT, and Attachment work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on action rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections, which is helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication struggles.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Mary will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is useful when visual cues matter; phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can help people fit brief coaching-style support into a busy day or continue work between sessions. These remote formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice new skills in daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English