- Years in practice
- 5
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Makini
Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting questions, coping with life changes, and attention-related challenges. She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and straightforward for parents looking for practical support.
Her approach is calm and accepting. She creates space for people to talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
The goal is to help people feel more confident in everyday moments rather than only during sessions. Makini uses several therapeutic tools depending on the issue. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice what matters most and build small actions around those values.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot patterns of thinking that get in the way and to try concrete behavior changes. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about how past connections shape current relationships. She works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way that many parents find helpful when life feels busy or overwhelming.
Makini pays attention to practical steps that fit real schedules. She supports exploration of identity, communication habits, and coping strategies while keeping goals realistic. Parents often come for help with communication problems, blended family stresses, fatherhood concerns, adoption or foster care questions, or managing ADHD-related challenges.
Makini focuses on steady, achievable change and on building skills that can be used right away.
What Makini works with
Everything Makini lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Makini helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Makini lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps. It is useful for parenting stress, life transitions, and situations that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thought patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce stress and improve daily routines. That approach can help with attention and memory struggles and with changing interaction habits that cause conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. That conversation guides whether to emphasize ACT, CBT, attachment ideas, or a mix so the plan fits each person's priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through communication exercises. Phone sessions can require less bandwidth and fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy parenting schedule.
Questions people ask about Makini
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
Common topics include relationship and intimacy issues, parenting questions, coping with life changes, and ADHD-related concentration concerns. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, fatherhood issues, and communication problems.
What is the therapist's general approach or style?
Sessions are collaborative and low-key, with a focus on creating a nonjudgmental space. Techniques may include noticing values, changing unhelpful thoughts, and building practical routines to improve day-to-day functioning.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
The therapist has five years of professional work experience supporting people with relationship challenges, parenting concerns, attention and memory issues, and coping with life changes.
What credentials and location are listed?
The clinician holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and communication preferences.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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