- CBT methods
- Stress management
- Parenting support
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, anger, and other common life pressures. Her work also covers relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting, self-esteem, career issues, and coping with life changes.
Zaakia uses a strengths-based outlook in sessions. She aims to identify what already works for a person and build on those skills. Conversations are practical and goal-focused, with room to name what feels hard and try new ways of responding.
Her main clinical approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In practice this means noticing patterns, testing small changes, and tracking what helps. Sessions can include skill-building, problem-solving, and short exercises to try between meetings.
People who come for help with anger often want clearer ways to speak up, reduce resentful feelings, or stop sudden outbursts. Zaakia guides clients toward manageable steps for those goals rather than quick fixes. She supports people working through career stress, compassion fatigue, or the strain of parenting alongside anger issues.
Zaakia works in English and sees clients from Texas. To begin, clients use the site process to match and schedule a first session. Her approach is straightforward and focused on usable tools for everyday life.
How CBT and practical work appear in online sessions
Zaakia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to connect thoughts, feelings, and actions. That looks like identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying out different responses, and tracking what changes. CBT can help with anger that shows up as quick irritations, built-up resentment, or problems speaking up at work or home.Her strengths-based focus means she looks for what already helps a person cope. Together the therapist and client decide which tools to try and how to adapt them to daily life. This is a collaborative process that adjusts as goals and preferences become clearer.
The platform details for sessions should be confirmed before booking since session formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so skill practice happens sooner. Licensed professionals often use these practical benefits to help people apply CBT tools between sessions and measure progress over time.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to anger?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and self-esteem issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a strengths-based approach and practical work. Sessions focus on skills, problem solving, and small behavior changes.
How long has she practiced?
She has 16 years of professional experience supporting mental health and overall wellness.
What credential and location does she hold?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Texas.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule the first session.