- Person-centered care
- Skill building focus
- Ten years experience
About Akilah
Akilah Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping adults who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. Akilah combines practical tools with steady support to help people meet goals they set for themselves.
She takes a person-centered approach and treats the client as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on building skills, identifying patterns, and practicing new ways of coping. Akilah adapts techniques from different therapeutic methods to fit what each person needs.
Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Texas and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Sam Houston State University with a focus in marriage and family therapy. Akilah has experience working with adults who have faced abuse, foster care involvement, substance use concerns, adjustment struggles, and family conflict.
In session she aims to help people feel validated, heard, and more able to act on their goals. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and practical strategies that can be used between sessions. The work often includes skill building for emotion regulation, improving communication, and tackling patterns that get in the way of wellbeing.
People often come for help with parenting stress, career transitions, grief, ADHD challenges, or mood disorders. Akilah uses a collaborative style and focuses on what the client wants to change next.
She takes a person-centered approach and treats the client as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on building skills, identifying patterns, and practicing new ways of coping. Akilah adapts techniques from different therapeutic methods to fit what each person needs.
Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Texas and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Sam Houston State University with a focus in marriage and family therapy. Akilah has experience working with adults who have faced abuse, foster care involvement, substance use concerns, adjustment struggles, and family conflict.
In session she aims to help people feel validated, heard, and more able to act on their goals. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and practical strategies that can be used between sessions. The work often includes skill building for emotion regulation, improving communication, and tackling patterns that get in the way of wellbeing.
People often come for help with parenting stress, career transitions, grief, ADHD challenges, or mood disorders. Akilah uses a collaborative style and focuses on what the client wants to change next.