Akinlana Burrowes, LMHC, LCMHC
Massachusetts · 7 years in practice
Akinlana Burrowes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes.
License and registration
- LMHC, Massachusetts
- LMHC12728 · expires December 2027
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 18121 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1801440912 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- 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 Akinlana
Akinlana Burrowes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She frames therapy as a place to feel heard and to build practical tools for daily life. Her style aims to validate experience while offering steady, skills-based support.
Burrowes draws from an integrative mix of approaches including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical behavior ideas, and EMDR. She often blends talk and expressive arts methods so people can use movement, music, or visual practices when words alone are hard.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, doable steps such as grounding exercises, thought work, and emotion regulation skills. Her background includes cross-cultural work both in the United States and overseas using music, dance, visual art, drama, and poetry alongside psychotherapy. That experience shapes a flexible way of working that honors cultural context and creative expression.
She has seven years of clinical experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - and also holds an LCMHC registration in North Carolina. People seeking help for things like depression, panic, shame, workplace stress, or compassion fatigue will find practical strategies and expressive options available. Burrowes speaks English and accepts clients in North Carolina as well as international clients.
Therapy sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. If someone prefers working with both talk and creative methods, she offers an approach that makes room for emotion, body-based practices, and stepwise skill building. The work starts with the client’s priorities and moves at a pace they set.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Akinlana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Akinlana names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How EMDR, mindfulness, and skills work online
Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and preferences, giving space to listen and reflect while the therapist follows the client's lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors with practical exercises that can be done between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses structured processing to help reduce the intensity of distressing memories and reactions; elements of EMDR can be incorporated into online sessions when appropriate.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals and history and suggest options such as CBT, EMDR-informed work, mindfulness, or expressive practices. Together you can try techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable for your life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for detailed work and movement-based or expressive exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching, or ongoing skills practice between longer sessions. These formats make therapy more accessible across time zones and schedules while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She helps people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, anger, and compassion fatigue, plus related issues like panic, dissociation, guilt, shame, and workplace stress.
How would you describe the therapeutic approach or style?
The approach is integrative and practical, combining client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral work, dialectical skills, mindfulness, EMDR, and expressive arts when helpful.
What is her professional background and experience?
She has seven years of clinical experience and has worked cross-culturally in the U.S. and overseas using interdisciplinary art forms alongside psychotherapy.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LMHC and LCMHC credentials and practices in North Carolina.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with this therapist?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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