Makini Leno, LPC

Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, coping with life changes, and attention-related challenges. She aims to offer a calm space where people can speak openly about difficult feelings and find practical steps forward.

Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals they can try between sessions. She often uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and action steps.

Makini also draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques may be used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Sessions emphasize clear, practical strategies rather than jargon or long lectures.

She has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and fatherhood topics. Makini is familiar with communication problems, commitment concerns, control issues, and the fallout of separation or domestic violence.

Sessions are conducted in English and follow the therapist's professional scope in Texas. If you want to begin, use the site's Start Therapy button to complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Makini Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck on them and to move toward what matters most. This approach can help with life changes, motivation, and values-based decision making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to stress and then testing small changes to get different results. CBT is often helpful for attention challenges, relationship thoughts, and problem solving.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. Expect a collaborative process where the plan can change based on what helps most in real life.

The profile does not specify particular online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people use quieter surroundings or avoid being on camera when that better suits their needs. Licensed professionals adapt exercises and worksheets for virtual sessions so work between meetings stays practical and doable.