Makini Leno, LPC

Therapist in Texas

Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with five years of experience.

Licensed inTexas
License91714
NPI 1114687308
Experience5+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Makini

Makini Leno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with five years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting challenges, ADHD-related concerns, and major life changes. Her approach aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak freely and feel heard.

She centers sessions on building trust and exploring how early attachments shape current patterns. That often means looking at how people relate, how they handle closeness, and how they react when stress appears.

Background and approach

Makini combines Attachment-Based Therapy ideas with practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to make insights useful in daily life. Sessions are collaborative and grounded in what each person needs that day. Techniques drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used when they fit a client's goals, such as improving emotional regulation or clarifying values.

Client-centered skills are mixed in to keep the work focused on the individual's experience. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family concerns, caregiving stress, and issues around kink and alternative sexual cultures. Those topics are approached with respect and without judgment.

Makini aims to support people during transitions like divorce, separation, or relocation, and with ongoing struggles such as emptiness or family of origin conflicts. She helps clients translate understanding into small, concrete changes that reduce daily strain.

Credentials

LPC (Texas): License 91714 · expires May 2027
NPI: 1114687308 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Makini lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Relationship issues
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Coping with life changes
ADHD
Adoption and foster care
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Immigration issues
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Multicultural concerns
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Postpartum depression
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Somatization
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Makini names

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Online support

How attachment and action-oriented therapies work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence how people connect today. Online sessions can help identify repeating patterns in relationships and practice new ways of responding to closeness and distance.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them. In teletherapy this often means choosing small, realistic actions between sessions and checking progress in follow-up chats or calls.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's own experience and pace. The therapist offers reflective listening and gentle guidance so the client leads the conversation about what matters most right now.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Makini will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as work progresses.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging is useful for short check-ins or when a quick update fits a schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still working toward relationship, attention, and life-change goals.

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Frequently asked

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, and ADHD-related concerns. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Sessions are collaborative and client-centered, offering a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk. She mixes attachment-focused exploration with practical tools to help clients make changes day to day.

What is her background and experience?

Makini holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and has five years of professional experience working with a variety of relational and life-transition concerns.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is licensed in Texas as an LPC and practices with clients located in that state.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can occur via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.

How are fees and billing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started with Makini?

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