- Compassionate listening
- Goal focused
- Practical skills
About Abisola
Abisola Adepegba is a licensed mental health counselor with 12 years of professional experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, grief and loss, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also supports those coping with identity and intimacy-related concerns and care-related burnout.
Her approach is practical and adaptable. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. Conversations are guided by respect, sensitivity, and compassion. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Abisola tailors each treatment plan to the person's specific needs. She listens for patterns such as communication breakdowns, attachment wounds, or unresolved abandonment issues. From there she works with clients to set achievable goals and simple strategies to reach them.
She brings experience with a wide range of concerns that often overlap, including adoption and foster care matters, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and trauma-related reactions. Her work also addresses mood conditions like bipolar and depression with attention to daily routines and coping skills.
People describe her style as warm and practical. She encourages small, manageable changes and helps people build confidence in handling difficult moments. To begin, she asks about needs and priorities and then co-creates a plan that fits daily life.
How therapeutic methods translate to online work
Many of Abisola's techniques focus on building communication skills and coping strategies that people can use day to day. Skill-based work helps with relationship strain, parenting challenges, and stress by teaching concrete practices for calmer responses and clearer conversations.She also uses approaches that address attachment patterns and grief by helping people name underlying feelings and try new ways of relating. This work supports those dealing with abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and attachment wounds.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what feels manageable, then suggest methods to try. You can adjust the plan together as progress unfolds.
Practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of sessions into busy schedules and fewer barriers to consistent meetings. If you want to confirm which session formats are offered, check the session options before booking. Online work makes it possible to practice skills between meetings and to bring real-life examples into discussion without promising a specific format.
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Experience
12+ years
Credentials
Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people with relationship strain, family and parenting issues, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and a range of intimacy and self-esteem concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and compassionate. She focuses on respectful dialog, clear goals, and steps people can practice between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of clinical experience working with varied concerns such as adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and trauma-related matters.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LMHC and LCPC credentials and practices with a Maryland connection.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients supported?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.