Akinlana Burrowes, LMHC, LCMHC

Akinlana Burrowes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with concerns like low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and trouble coping with big life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy feel accessible and practical for everyday life.

Burrowes uses an integrative style that blends talking therapy with expressive arts and body-based methods. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's lead, and incorporates cognitive and mindfulness strategies to build coping skills. She also brings eye movement desensitization and reprocessing into her practice for people dealing with post-traumatic stress and trauma-related symptoms.

Her background includes cross-cultural work in the United States and overseas, using music, dance/movement, visual art, drama, and poetry alongside psychotherapeutic methods. This gives her multiple ways to help people who find traditional talk therapy hard or limiting. She emphasizes creative options when words alone aren’t enough.

Burrowes holds a Master of Arts and is licensed as an LMHC and LCMHC. She has seven years of clinical experience and works from a perspective that recognizes systemic and multicultural factors in clients' lives. Her style is collaborative and person-focused, aiming to validate each client’s experience while building practical skills.

To begin, she invites people to choose the pace and mode of expression that fits them, whether through conversation, art, movement, or a mix of methods. Her goal is to help clients feel heard and better able to handle daily stressors and trauma-related challenges.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Akinlana uses client-centered therapy to follow a person's pace and priorities, focusing first on what matters most to the client and building a collaborative plan. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, includes practical tools and homework to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can be practiced between sessions and tracked over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, past experiences, and preferences, then try methods that fit the client's needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as understanding grows.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to work with someone across state lines or internationally, which can help people who have relocated or who need access to culturally informed care.