About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who centers somatic awareness in her work. She brings 17 years of experience helping people make sense of stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. Mary focuses on practical, down-to-earth support so clients can feel steadier in daily life.
Mary uses body-focused methods alongside talk therapy to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach skills for managing thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her practice supports people facing grief, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, mood shifts such as bipolar, and difficulties with intimacy or self-esteem. Mary also addresses specific issues like abandonment, attachment problems, body image, and caregiver stress.
She works with a wide variety of life changes and co-occurring struggles. In sessions clients can expect to build concrete tools for coping and communication. Mary emphasizes small, steady steps that fit everyday life.
She helps clients translate insights into practical habits that reduce reactivity and increase clarity. Mary offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Services are provided via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How somatic and evidence-based methods translate to online therapy
Somatic work helps people tune into sensations in the body and notice how emotions show up physically; online sessions use guided attention and simple body-awareness practices to build that skill. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions; it helps with worry, avoidance, and making life changes by teaching practical steps and mindset shifts. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in relationships and helps people create more supported ways of connecting by looking at interaction habits and emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan so work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to keep regular appointments, practice skills between sessions, and get support from wherever the client is located. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic and cognitive tools for remote work so progress continues even when meeting virtually.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English