About Sylvia
Sylvia Akingbade is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She works with adults on concerns like relationships, parenting strain, grief, low self-esteem, anger, and career transitions. Sylvia uses practical conversation and steady support to help clients make small changes that add up over time.
She brings eight years of experience in mental health to sessions. That background includes work across a range of life stages and situations, and it informs a flexible, down-to-earth style.
Background and approach
Sylvia centers each session on what the client wants to address and helps set realistic, achievable goals. Sylvia draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions person-led. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when managing strong emotions and improving coping strategies. In practical terms, Sylvia focuses on clear communication and skill building. She helps people develop tools for better boundaries, improved communication, and healthier self-talk.
Sessions often include simple exercises and take-home ideas to practice between meetings. Sylvia aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes and supports clients as they try new approaches.
For many people, that steady support makes difficult changes more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Sylvia frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and letting the client guide the conversation. This approach helps clarify what matters most to the person and sets therapy goals together.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens collaboratively. Sylvia will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most useful. Clients and the therapist make decisions together about which skills to practice and how fast to move.
Online sessions can fit into busy days by offering flexible formats. Video calls let people talk face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep momentum between appointments and to share quick updates or homework exercises. Together these options make therapy more accessible and adaptable to real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English