About Amaka
Amaka Agulue is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York with ten years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and life and executive coaching. Amaka aims to meet people where they are and build on their existing strengths to move forward.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She emphasizes small, doable steps that fit into busy lives rather than long, abstract plans.
Background and approach
Amaka often helps people untangle attachment concerns and family of origin issues that keep showing up in adult relationships. She also supports those facing midlife questions, struggles with narcissistic dynamics, or persistent obsessive thoughts and behaviors such as trichotillomania and OCD patterns. She brings coaching skills for people seeking clearer purpose or work-related direction.
That work focuses on motivation, confidence, and practical strategies to change habits and daily routines. Amaka believes clients know their own stories and uses that as the foundation for therapy. She works with each person to set realistic goals, try new skills, and check progress along the way.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Amaka uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical tools. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for stress and anxiety through short, teachable exercises that can be practiced between sessions. This helps people manage overwhelm and regain a sense of control over daily life.Another strand of her work addresses trauma and attachment concerns by helping clients notice patterns, name difficult feelings, and try new ways of reacting in relationships. That process often includes small behavioral experiments and reflective conversations to change long-standing responses.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Amaka will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She treats therapy as a team effort where feedback shapes the direction of care.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and structured work on skills, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and timely skill reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Self-love
- Trichotillomania
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English