Constance Akonumbo
Practical, faith-informed counseling for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Constance
Constance Akonumbo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with seven years in the helping professions. She came to counseling after work in teaching and nursing, and she brings that varied background into sessions. Constance describes her work as warm and interactive and values a relationship built on trust and straightforward communication.
She sees therapy as a partnership and encourages clients to make conscious decisions that move them toward their goals.
Background and approach
Constance uses practical, down-to-earth methods in sessions. She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential ideas to shape the work. That means she helps people notice thoughts and habits, practice new skills, and clarify what matters to them.
Sessions often include coaching and concrete tools alongside reflective conversation. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, parenting concerns, relationship and family problems, grief, sleep issues, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD, addictions, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, communication problems, body image, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation.
Constance names compassion fatigue and coaching among her practical emphases. Constance frames the therapeutic alliance as a joint effort. She asks direct questions, offers guidance, and supports clients as they practice new ways of coping.
Her style blends encouragement with clear feedback to help clients build skills and move forward. Rooted in faith for her personally, she respects each person’s values and aims to help them use their strengths. Her background in education and nursing informs a hands-on approach to problem solving and wellness.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, committed steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts without letting them control actions and suits stress, anxiety, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust as progress is made, keeping the plan practical and collaborative.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work, or travel and to practice tools between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same skills-based exercises and coaching as in-person care while making scheduling and follow-up more convenient.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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