About Ngozi
Dr. Ngozi Okose is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas. She has 22 years of clinical experience and offers practical, person-focused therapy for stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and phobias.
Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people make workable changes in daily life. She blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs instead of using one fixed style. That can mean focusing on thoughts and behaviors one week and practicing acceptance and values-based choices the next.
Background and approach
She also brings attachment-focused ideas into sessions to look at how early bonds affect current relationships. Dr. Okose explains things clearly and keeps sessions straightforward.
She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices skills between sessions when that will help. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she pays attention to safety and pacing so work happens at a comfortable speed. Her background includes many years teaching counseling at the university level and long experience in independent practice in Texas.
She uses that mix of classroom and hands-on work to help people understand problems and try practical steps forward. Her multicultural experience informs how she frames feedback and suggestions. Sessions may include skill-building exercises, values clarification, and problem-solving tied to everyday routines.
Dr. Okose aims to give clear tools people can use at home, at work, and in relationships. The focus is on what will help a person feel steadier and more able to handle life’s challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; this can help with anxiety, phobias, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, helping people shift how they relate to others and manage intimacy concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process may include trying a method for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in session, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit quick questions or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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