Akinlana Burrowes

Akinlana Burrowes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the particular pressures women often name. She describes a warm, creative approach that invites each person to lead the work. Her goal is to help people feel validated and more capable of managing everyday strain.

She combines everyday talk therapy with expressive arts and body-focused methods when it fits. That can mean using music, movement, visual art, drama, or writing alongside traditional conversations. Akinlana draws on seven years of clinical experience and practice across cultures to shape sessions around each person's needs.

She pays attention to how larger social forces affect mental health, including prejudice and systemic oppression. That perspective often informs work with trauma, shame, and grief tied to identity and life events. She also helps people handle workplace stress, relationship communication problems, and financial worries.

In sessions she may use client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral strategies for shifting unhelpful thoughts, and elements of mindfulness and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. EMDR and expressive arts are additional options when trauma or body-based processing is relevant. The therapist frames each choice as a collaborative decision with the client.

People interested in starting are asked to use the site’s Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability. Sessions are offered in English and Akinlana accepts international clients.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Akinlana commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and EMDR alongside mindfulness practices. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person's pace, which helps people feel heard and decide what to work on. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that uses bilateral stimulation alongside memory processing to reduce distress tied to traumatic events. Mindfulness helps people become more aware of thoughts and physical reactions and can lower reactivity to stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether to emphasize talk-based work, skills training, mindfulness, EMDR, or creative and body-based methods as appropriate.

The original biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing for shorter check-ins when needed, and making scheduling across time zones possible for international clients. Licensed professionals can pace sessions to match energy and bandwidth, and adapt exercises so people can practice skills between meetings.