Zaakia Bowens
Practical, compassionate care for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Zaakia
Zaakia Bowens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship matters, and other life shifts. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can be treated with kindness and compassion.
Her approach is grounded in practical methods that help people make changes now. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - to identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with healthier patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on real-life problems and solutions. Zaakia pays attention to strengths and what already works for each person. She helps clients notice small steps that add up over time and build on those successes.
The work tends to be structured, with clear goals and homework when it will be useful. People turn to her for common concerns like grief, self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, career questions, and depression. She also supports those facing transitions such as coping with life changes and parenting pressures.
Therapy with her can include different formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to fit care into a busy life while keeping the focus practical and steady.
CBT-informed care delivered online
Zaakia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - which focuses on identifying thought patterns that contribute to stress and anxiety and shifting them into more helpful ways of thinking. CBT is often useful for worries, low mood, anger, and situations where practical change matters.Her strengths-based orientation complements CBT by highlighting what already works in a persons life and building on those tools. That combination helps people set achievable goals and track progress in small steps. Together, the therapist and client decide which methods fit best, adjusting as needs and goals change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Sessions can happen over video calls for face-to-face conversation, by phone when video is not convenient, or through live chat and text messaging for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to continue work between appointments and to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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