- Relationship focus
- Practical steps
- Texas LPC
About Makini
Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, and attention-related difficulties. Her approach aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about worries and confusing feelings. Sessions are meant to be straightforward and practical. Makini listens, reflects, and helps people find small steps they can try between meetings.
Her work draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-oriented thinking, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She blends these to match what each person needs and prefers. The goal is to help people notice what matters, build helpful habits, and handle hard emotions more effectively.
Makini has also worked with issues tied to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family concerns, and caregiving stress. She supports people dealing with family origin patterns, communication problems, commitment doubts, and the effects of separation or domestic violence. Coping with natural or human-caused disaster is included among the concerns she can address.
Her style is encouraging and practical. Makini offers partnership rather than judgment. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new ways of relating, and track progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them, then choose actions that align with their values. It can be useful for coping with life changes and ongoing worries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioral experiments to change patterns. This approach is often helpful for attention challenges, mood shifts, and relationship problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns and communication, which can help when intimacy or trust issues are present.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to find methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, and attachment ideas over time so the plan matches how a person wants to grow.
Please confirm current session formats before booking, as session delivery options are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a work break, fewer travel needs, or meetings that feel more private because they avoid public waiting rooms. It can also make it simpler to maintain consistency after a major life change or while managing caregiving and family responsibilities. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well in an online setting.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Credentials
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, and ADHD-related concentration concerns. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
How would you describe the therapist's approach and style?
The style is warm and nonjudgmental with a focus on practical steps. Sessions emphasize listening, setting small goals, and practicing skills between meetings.
What is the therapist's background and experience?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with five years of professional experience working with the concerns listed above.
Where is the therapist licensed and based?
She holds a Texas LPC credential and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients supported?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.