About Akamin
Dr. Akamin Nkengaka is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with fifteen years of experience. He helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and low self-esteem.
He works in English and accepts clients from Illinois and internationally. The opening step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy button. Dr.
Nkengaka uses a practical, person-focused style in sessions. He listens first, then helps people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses.
Background and approach
Sessions can include talking, skill-building, and attention to physical sensations in the body. He believes clients are the experts in their own lives and builds on each person’s strengths. His approach draws on somatic ideas and cognitive-behavioral methods.
That means attention to how the body holds stress alongside looking at thoughts and behaviours. He also uses acceptance and commitment techniques and attachment-informed ways of understanding difficult relationships. In practice, Dr.
Nkengaka helps people set clear, doable goals. He offers tools for managing panic, cravings, low mood, and painful memories. Work can include short-term skills training or longer work on patterns that repeat across relationships.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model allows sessions to be scheduled and canceled when needed. To begin, clients complete the platform questionnaire and pick a time that fits their schedule.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and trauma show up in the body. It can include noticing breath, tension, and physical sensations to help reduce uncomfortable reactions and build grounding skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current trust and closeness, and it helps people change repeating patterns in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. That means collaboration on whether to focus on body awareness, thought skills, relationship patterns, or a mix of these approaches.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options let people fit sessions into busy lives, continue work from different locations, and use shorter check-ins or longer conversations as needed. The variety of formats makes it easier to practice skills between sessions and keep momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English