About Arkila
Arkila Covington is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship concerns. She supports those coping with parenting strain, intimacy issues, career changes, and the effects of trauma or abuse. Arkila also works with people facing identity and LGBT-related concerns and those navigating communication and commitment struggles.
Her approach is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on conversation, practical skills, and noticing how thoughts, bodies, and relationships connect.
Background and approach
She uses somatic ideas alongside cognitive and acceptance-based techniques to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. Arkila has nine years of experience and holds LMFT licensure recorded as MO LMFT 2017030439 and CA LMFT 93941. She practices from Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Treatment plans are shaped to each person’s needs, drawing on Attachment-Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and somatic approaches. Work may include learning new ways to handle triggers, building stronger communication, and practicing grounding skills.
Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling based on therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that link body awareness and everyday change
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing sensations in the body and how they relate to stress, emotions, and relationship patterns. This approach can help people who feel stuck in physical tension, overwhelm, or dissociation to reconnect and calm their nervous systems.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It combines mindfulness and practical exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and communication. It can help with trust, boundary setting, and improving closeness in ongoing relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Arkila collaborates with each person to see which combination of methods fits their goals, preferences, and lifestyle. The plan can shift as needs change and as people try different tools in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from home, fit therapy around work and family life, and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these options to tailor pacing, homework, and check-ins so therapy fits into busy routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California, Missouri, Texas
- Languages
- English