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Ijeoma Onyejiaka

Ijeoma Onyejiaka

Texas

Compassionate counselor for sleep and relationships

  • 11 years' experience
  • English, Igbo
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Credentials
LPC
License
LPC, Texas · 72670
NPI
1124480892
Based in
Texas
  • Focus on sleep and rest
  • Integrative therapy approach
  • Speaks English and Igbo

About Ijeoma

Ijeoma Onyejiaka is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and sleep problems. She also supports clients facing relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She speaks English and Igbo and brings 11 years of clinical experience to her work.

Her sessions are collaborative and rooted in practical strategies. She listens for how family life, identity, and past experiences shape current struggles. Conversations focus on clear goals like better sleep, calmer nights, clearer boundaries, or healthier communication. She uses evidence-informed methods to support those goals rather than one fixed style.

In practice she draws from cognitive and acceptance-based work to address unhelpful thinking and to build flexible coping skills. Attachment-focused ideas help when relational patterns and intimacy issues are central. The approach is intended to be culturally aware and responsive to a person’s background and beliefs.

She has extensive experience helping teens, couples, and families with communication problems, blended family issues, parenting stress, and major transitions. She also works with people dealing with trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and complex grief. Sessions aim to strengthen emotional regulation and practical problem solving.

Her goal is to help clients develop sustainable routines and clearer relationships that support rest and daily functioning. People who want structured tools for sleep and stress, plus space to talk through relationship or identity concerns, may find her approach useful.

Approaches that support better sleep and relationships

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people commit to actions that match their values, which can make bedtime routines and daily habits easier to keep. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides concrete tools to change unhelpful sleep-related patterns and anxious thinking. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and can be useful when intimacy or family dynamics disrupt rest.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining strategies from different approaches and adjusting them over time as sleep and relationship needs change.

The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid time spent commuting, and maintain continuity during life transitions. It can also support shorter check-ins when needed or let clients choose a session style that fits their energy level. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-based tools to work in remote sessions while helping clients build routines that support better sleep and daily functioning.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHoardingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Gottman MethodHypnotherapyImago Relationship TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Credentials

Texas

Languages

English, Igbo

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

Ijeoma supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and sleep difficulties. She also helps with relationship issues, parenting strain, grief, ADHD, and related challenges.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals and real-life strategies for better sleep, emotion regulation, and relationship communication.

What is her clinical background?

She has 11 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Her work emphasizes systemic and relational concerns alongside individual symptoms.

Where is she located and what credential does she hold?

She practices in Texas and holds the LPC credential in Texas.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Igbo. She also accepts international clients.

What session formats are offered?

The original profile does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started with therapy?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

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