Makini Leno, LPC

Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She helps people who are facing relationship strain, intimacy challenges, parenting stress, and life transitions. Makini also supports those managing attention and focus difficulties. She seeks to make the first step toward change feel attainable and understandable.

Her approach centers on building an open, nonjudgmental space where a person can talk about thoughts and feelings. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to each person and to identify small, practical steps forward. Makini uses straightforward conversations to help people untangle patterns that keep them stuck.

She draws on several evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Those approaches are used to address relationship patterns, commitment worries, communication problems, and parenting concerns. Makini pays attention to how past family experiences shape current reactions.

People who come for help may be navigating blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, fatherhood concerns, or the stress of caregiving. She also has experience supporting people around autism, BDSM and kink communities, and recovery from separation or domestic violence. Her style is collaborative and practical, focusing on what can change now.

Makini works in English and practices in Texas. If you think this approach might fit, consider the next step of completing the brief matching questionnaire to schedule a session.

How approaches like ACT and CBT work online

Makini uses several practical approaches that translate well to remote sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values; it can help with decision points, commitment worries, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches skills to change them; it is often useful for managing communication problems, attention and focus struggles, and mood-related challenges. Attachment-based ideas examine relationship patterns learned from early family experiences and help people build different ways of connecting and communicating.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to choose tools and practices that suit each person's life and needs.

Session format options are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets a therapist observe how daily routines and relationships show up in real life, which can help apply skills between meetings.