Makini Leno , LPC

Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She helps people who are facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, ADHD-related focus struggles, and big life changes. Her approach is straightforward and centered on listening first. Makini aims to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She encourages clear, honest conversation and practical steps that fit daily life. Sessions focus on building skills for better communication, managing attention and memory challenges, and navigating transitions. Her work includes support around adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and fatherhood issues. She also addresses topics such as commitment worries, communication breakdowns, and challenges related to autism and neurodiversity. Makini is familiar with sensitive areas like domestic violence, divorce and separation, and alternative sexual cultures including BDSM and kink. Therapy with her blends learning new ways to act with talking through what matters most. She draws on evidence-based methods to help people make small, practical changes. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. People meet Makini for help making decisions, improving close relationships, and coping when life feels overwhelming. She supports clients who want clearer focus, better communication, and more satisfying connections.

Approaches for online work and practical coping

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when feelings are difficult; it can help with commitment worries, emptiness, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete strategies for changing them, which is useful for managing attention, memory concerns, and communication problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current closeness and trust, helping people improve intimacy and relationship patterns.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, daily challenges, and preferences, then recommend techniques that fit. Plans evolve over time so the approach can be adjusted as progress and needs change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, step-by-step skill practice, or follow-up between longer appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, and other life demands.