Akinlana Burrowes , LMHC, LCMHC

Akinlana Burrowes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and women's issues. She uses a warm, person-centered style to help clients feel heard and to build practical coping skills. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.

Burrowes blends talking therapies with creative, body-aware techniques she has used across cultures. She has worked with expressive arts - including music, movement, visual art, and poetry - alongside more structured therapies. This mix helps when words alone are not enough to process strong feelings.

She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. Dialectical behavior tools are used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is included when trauma processing is appropriate and a client is ready to try it.

Clients can expect short-term skill building and longer work where deeper healing is needed. Sessions focus on clear goals such as reducing panic attacks, managing workplace stress, or rebuilding self-esteem after loss or betrayal. The therapist also addresses multicultural concerns and the effects of prejudice and discrimination.

Burrowes has seven years of clinical experience and holds an MA LMHC and North Carolina LCMHC. She offers therapeutic options that fit varied needs and styles, and she invites people to explore both talk-based and creative pathways toward feeling more stable and empowered.

How Akinlana Uses Therapy Methods Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person's own goals and choices. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people feel understood as they set practical goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Online CBT sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing new skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change avoidance patterns.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These tools can help when feelings are intense or when relationships and boundaries are causing repeated stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Decisions are made together and can shift as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone is low bandwidth, live chat or texting can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.