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Online therapist

Nakia Roberson

Compassionate guidance for relationships and parenting

Credentials
LPC
Experience
14 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Nakia

Nakia Roberson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 14 years of experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and issues like stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem. She speaks English and aims to give straightforward support for people who want practical change.

Nakia emphasizes each person's strengths and respects their story while helping them move toward clearer goals. Her approach balances practical skills with attention to emotions.

Background and approach

She uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to help reframe unhelpful thinking. She also draws on emotionally focused work and the Gottman Method to address connection and trust in relationships. Nakia often helps with life transitions such as divorce, blended family adjustments, and parenting after adoption or foster placement.

She also works with concerns around fidelity, commitment, and sexual expression, including kink and alternative sex culture. Career and financial stress, fatherhood issues, and multicultural questions are also within her focus areas. Sessions can include short-term coaching-style tools or deeper therapeutic work depending on the need.

She encourages clients to name practical steps, try them between sessions, and check what is or isn’t working. The overall aim is clearer communication, more reliable coping, and stronger self-respect. For parents and people focused on relationships, Nakia offers direct guidance and steady support while honoring individual values and goals.

Therapeutic approaches for online relationship and parenting support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and building consistent habits that support parenting and relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to see what changes. It is practical for stress, worry, and improving daily routines that affect family life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets the emotional patterns that shape closeness and conflict in relationships and can help partners reconnect and feel safer expressing needs.

Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, test out methods, and adjust as progress unfolds. This shared planning helps find the mix of tools that fits the client’s situation and preferences.

Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those formats allow for flexible scheduling and let people work on skills from home or between responsibilities. Sessions can focus on short skill-building or deeper emotional work, with practical suggestions clients can apply right away.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Nakia address?
She works with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, grief, anger, self-esteem, and life changes. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, blended families, fertility, infidelity, and multicultural concerns.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Her style mixes practical skills and emotional work. She uses tools to change thoughts and behaviors while also attending to emotions and relationship patterns.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of professional experience and centers therapy on clients' strengths and goals. She aims to support people as they take steps toward change.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with license number TX LPC 72181 and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to therapist availability.

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