About Akemi
Akemi McGoogan is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia who focuses on practical, goal-oriented therapy. She draws on 18 years of experience and a mix of approaches to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, career stress, and parenting challenges. Akemi aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to finding clearer direction and more energy for daily life.
She trained in social work at North Carolina Central University and earned her Master of Social Work from SUNY Albany.
Background and approach
That background informs a straightforward style that blends short-term tools with deeper conversation. Sessions often include skill practice and simple steps to try between meetings. Akemi describes her work as motivational and grounded in the idea that thought patterns matter.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance-focused approaches to shift negative thinking and build new habits. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to address closeness and safety in relationships. Her specialty list includes stress, self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD, along with areas such as adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and end-of-life concerns.
She also supports people with career questions, parenting demands, and sleeping problems. Akemi offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. Sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
She speaks English and practices under the Georgia LCSW credential, GA LCSW CSW005518.
Online approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their personal values. It supports work on anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions by helping clients clarify what matters and take small steps toward it.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical tools for managing anxiety, depressive thinking, and sleep problems through structured skill practice and behavior changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape expectations about closeness and trust. It can help people who struggle with intimacy, communication problems, or family-of-origin issues by exploring relationship patterns and trying new ways of relating.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring to decide which methods to try first. Treatment can shift over time as needs change, and clients are encouraged to give feedback about what helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can serve as shorter check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to work on goals while juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English