- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 17 years of clinical experience. She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, relationship challenges, and trauma-related issues. Mary speaks English and works with clients both in the United States and internationally.
Mary centers therapy on collaboration and respect for each person's story. Sessions focus on developing skills for emotional regulation, improving communication, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She combines problem-solving with time to reflect so people feel heard and understood. Her work often addresses parenting stress, grief, addiction, mood conditions like depression and bipolar, and concerns such as body image or sleep problems. Mary also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, and attachment-related difficulties.
She uses focused strategies to reduce anger and improve day-to-day functioning. Mary draws from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. In practice she helps clients try skills, weigh options, and choose what fits their life.
The goal is practical change rather than labels. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Pricing varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to availability.
What Olayinka works with
Everything Olayinka lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Olayinka helps people with.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Olayinka lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT helps people facing parenting stress, anxiety, and life transitions find steadier direction. Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her work and looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach can help people understand connection, boundaries, and repeated relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Mary will discuss different methods, try practical tools in sessions, and adjust based on a client's needs and preferences. The aim is to build collaboration so the client feels involved in choosing what helps most.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or ongoing reflections between longer meetings. These options provide flexibility for work schedules, caregiving, travel, and varying energy levels.
Questions people ask about Olayinka
What kinds of concerns does Mary address?
She works with a wide range of issues including parenting stress, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is Mary’s approach to therapy?
Mary uses collaborative, client-centered work that blends skills training and reflective conversation. She helps people try new strategies and decide what fits their goals.
How much clinical experience does this therapist have?
Mary has 17 years of experience working with adults on emotional regulation, trauma-related concerns, parenting issues, and other life stressors.
Where is Mary licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor credentialed as NJ LPC and is based in New Jersey.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and the practice accepts clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
Mary offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with Mary?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
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