Olayinka "Mary" Akeju, LPC
New Jersey · 17 years in practice
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju uses a practical, evidence-informed approach to help people manage painful memories and strong emotions.
License and registration
- LPC, New Jersey
- 37PC00613100 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1336568138 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Olayinka
Olayinka "Mary" Akeju uses a practical, evidence-informed approach to help people manage painful memories and strong emotions. She draws on methods that address trauma, relationships, and everyday stress. Mary is an LPC with 17 years of clinical experience in New Jersey.
Mary focuses on clear, doable steps rather than long lectures. Sessions often include learning skills to handle anxiety, improving communication, and developing routines that support sleep and appetite. She also addresses grief, addiction concerns, and work-related stress in straightforward ways.
Background and approach
When trauma or past hurt shapes current moods, Mary uses approaches aimed at processing those memories and reducing their hold on day-to-day life. She helps people identify patterns that cause pain, and then practice new ways of responding. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Parents and caregivers can expect help with parenting strain, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress without being judged. Mary also supports people working through identity issues, relationship pain, intimacy concerns, and body image troubles. Sessions include problem-solving and skill practice tailored to each person.
Mary offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on building strengths you already have. She explains ideas in plain language and helps turn them into small actions you can try between sessions. The goal is better coping, clearer choices, and more consistent emotional balance.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Olayinka lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Mary Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Mary often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-based ideas to address patterns that cause distress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety, low mood, and unhealthy habits. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current responses and helps people build safer ways of relating in friendships and partnerships.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to teach how to notice difficult thoughts without being driven by them. ACT can help when someone wants to move toward valued goals despite uncomfortable feelings. Mary treats finding the right approach as a team effort - she talks with each person about goals and preferences, then tries methods that fit. If something doesn’t feel right, she adjusts the plan together with the person.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper processing, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick access to support between sessions and a way to keep momentum on homework or coping strategies. These options provide flexibility so therapy can happen around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family stress, addictions, and attention-related difficulties.
What is the therapist’s general approach in sessions?
Sessions combine client-centered conversation with structured skill work from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. The aim is practical strategies and processing painful memories when relevant.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
Mary is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of clinical experience practicing in New Jersey.
Where is the therapist located and licensed?
She practices from New Jersey and holds the LPC credential in that state.
In which languages can I meet with the therapist?
Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients who can be served in that language.
What session formats are available?
Mary offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs and schedules.
How is payment handled and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
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