About Akamin
Dr. Akamin Nkengaka is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois who focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression.
Background and approach
With 15 years of clinical experience, he draws on evidence-based interventions to help people unpack unhelpful thought patterns, reduce distress, and build practical coping skills. His style centers on collaboration and respect, inviting clients to be active participants in shaping treatment while highlighting their existing strengths.
Dr. Nkengaka blends cognitive and behavioral strategies with relational and acceptance-based perspectives to tailor care to each person’s needs.
He attends to the ways attachment history and present-day thinking interact with symptoms, and he uses techniques from several modalities to address emotions, behavior, and interpersonal connection. He welcomes clients who prefer sessions in English and accepts international clients, offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging as formats for care.
Pricing varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Dr. Nkengaka commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and learn to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful actions, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and modifying unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, teaching practical strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together; he collaborates with clients to choose and adapt methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process means techniques may shift over time as the therapist and client evaluate what is most helpful.
Online therapy with Dr. Nkengaka is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and to fit sessions into busy lives while still accessing licensed professionals and evidence-informed interventions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English