About Manilla
Manilla Jenkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction struggles, or low self-worth. She talks with clients about practical steps they can try and the strengths they already have.
She believes people know their own story best and that therapy is a place to build on what already works. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress rather than long explanations.
Background and approach
The approach is warm and straightforward, with attention to what feels doable for each person. Her work draws on client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns and test new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to calm intense moments and improve sleep.
When relationship concerns arise, she uses strategies from the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair trust. Manilla also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change and stay engaged in the process. She helps people facing phobias, panic, obsessions, and compulsions by breaking problems into manageable steps.
For addictions and process behaviors she focuses on goals, triggers, and practical coping plans. Therapy is offered in English from Alabama and is structured to fit daily life. Sessions can include short skill work, planning between meetings, and steady reviews of progress.
Her style aims to be empowering, direct, and useful for real-world problems.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and build on their own strengths while deciding what changes matter most.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is often useful for anxiety, panic, phobias, sleep problems, and compulsive patterns because it gives concrete steps to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy offers simple practices to calm intense moments and reduce reactivity. These skills can support better sleep, lessen anxiety, and make coping with cravings or intrusive thoughts easier.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will choose techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let therapists and clients use face-to-face conversation for skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter verbal check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to attend sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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