- Relationships
- Parenting
- ADHD focus
About Makini
Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, coping with big life changes, and attention-related struggles such as ADHD and concentration difficulties. Makini talks plainly about goals and practical steps so people can make manageable changes.
Her approach is conversational and goal-focused. She uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among others. Sessions typically include identifying patterns that cause stress, trying small behavior changes, and building clearer communication skills.
Makini often helps people who feel stuck after transitions like moving, job changes, or changes in caregiving roles. She also works with clients dealing with adoption and foster care dynamics, blended family concerns, fatherhood issues, and relationship control or commitment struggles. She addresses intimacy and sexual culture concerns, including BDSM and kink, with direct, nonjudgmental conversation.
Therapy with Makini usually involves setting concrete, short-term goals and checking progress each session. She uses client-centered listening alongside structured tools from CBT and DBT to practice new skills. Clients can expect down-to-earth feedback and tasks that fit into everyday life.
Sessions are provided in English and follow Texas LPC practice. Makini does not accept international clients. If someone is ready to start, the usual next step is completing the site’s matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Makini Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting pushed around by them and then choose actions that match their values. It suits issues like feeling stuck during big life changes or trouble with motivation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. It breaks problems into smaller steps and teaches practical techniques for attention, concentration, and managing relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Makini treats the choice of method as collaborative. She will discuss goals and preferences, try approaches in session, and adjust based on what helps most.
Confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking, since formats are listed on the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or avoid being on camera if that helps you focus. Licensed professionals use these tools to help people practice skills between sessions and to keep progress grounded in real life.
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Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting questions, coping with life changes, and attention-related struggles such as ADHD.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is conversational and practical, mixing listening with concrete tools from approaches like CBT and DBT to try real-life changes between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas.
What are her credentials and location?
She is licensed as an LPC in Texas and provides services from that state.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session formats before booking by checking the online options on the profile, as session delivery details are listed there.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions operate via a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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