Akinlana Burrowes , LMHC, LCMHC

Akinlana Burrowes is a licensed mental health counselor who blends traditional psychotherapy with expressive arts and trauma-informed modalities to support clients facing a range of life challenges. She holds the credentials LMHC and LCMHC, indicating her licensure as a mental health counselor in multiple jurisdictions. Her practice emphasizes an integrative framework that weaves liberation psychology, talk-based therapy, expressive arts, EMDR, and other body-based approaches to address complex emotional and somatic needs.

She has successfully supported people experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, particularly when those struggles are connected to systemic oppression. Her work extends across cultures and settings, having engaged with communities both within the United States and overseas through music, dance and movement, visual art, drama, poetry, and traditional art forms. Those interdisciplinary methods can offer alternate pathways to naming and processing difficult experiences when words alone feel insufficient.

Akinlana centers validation and empowerment in her practice, inviting clients to lead the process while offering therapeutic tools that resonate with their histories and identities. She aims to create spaces where creative expression and clinical approaches come together to help clients build resilience, clarify values, and find more grounded ways of moving forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care tailored to your needs

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's own goals and experiences, offering a collaborative, empathic space where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps build self-awareness and confidence. This approach is useful for issues like low self-esteem, navigating life changes, and improving relationships.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured method for processing traumatic memories and the emotions tied to them. In practice it helps clients reduce the intensity of distressing memories and integrate those experiences in a way that supports healing from trauma and abuse.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and practical strategies for managing stress and anxiety. Techniques focused on grounding, breath, and gentle attention can help clients reduce reactivity and strengthen coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and Akinlana works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt these modalities over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy schedules, maintain continuity across locations, and access support when in-person visits are not feasible.