About Ngozi
Dr. Ngozi Okose is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 22 years of clinical experience. She uses a somatic-informed approach alongside evidence-based therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and mood concerns.
Her style is calm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel approachable and practical. She combines body-focused awareness with cognitive and attachment work to address how emotions show up in the body and in relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple body-based noticing, talking through patterns, and learning skills to reduce distress. This mix helps people who struggle with sleep, chronic pain, compulsive behaviors, or ongoing worry. Dr.
Okose has a long history in counseling and education. She draws on decades of multicultural experience gained through international work and many years of independent practice in Houston, Texas. That background informs how she frames cultural and migration-related issues in treatment.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, from grief and parenting stress to addictions, eating and body image struggles, and identity-related worries. She also supports people coping with life transitions, career stress, and compassion fatigue through straightforward strategies and collaborative planning. Clients can expect a therapist who listens, explains options clearly, and adapts approaches to fit individual needs.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through several formats to fit different lifestyles.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body and learn simple grounding and movement-based practices to reduce that tension. It can be useful for issues like chronic pain, sleep trouble, anxiety, and trauma-related sensations.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions, while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them. ACT is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people change repeating hurtful patterns in relationships and intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit the person. Adjustments are made together over time to find what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and the ability to meet from home. Sessions can be video calls or phone sessions for deeper conversation, or live chat and text-based messaging for brief check-ins and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to use somatic practices and talk therapies in ways that fit busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English