- Listens and teaches
- Focus on goals
- Practical assignments
About Augustina
Augustina Garba is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LPC, with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and trauma. She listens closely and uses practical steps so clients can make changes that matter in daily life.
Augustina earned a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in 2002. Early in her career she worked with adults who had serious mental illness and was involved in clinical work with severely abused and neglected children during her internship. Those experiences shaped her interest in trauma, recovery, and supporting people through difficult life events.
She offers individual work and also provides sessions that address parenting, anger management for young people, and relationship challenges. She helps adult survivors of childhood abuse who are coping with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, panic, or ongoing stress. Her practice also includes support around intimacy, self-esteem, eating concerns, and attention difficulties related to ADHD.
Augustina describes her approach as collaborative and practical. She listens, teaches skills, and gives tangible assignments to help clients practice outside sessions. She uses methods from Client-Centered Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy to match what each person needs.
People who meet with her can expect steady, consistent care focused on clear goals and small steps. She aims to build a reliable relationship so clients can work toward lasting changes and renewed hope.
How these approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and helping people find their own answers; it is useful when someone needs acceptance and a steady therapeutic presence. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and uses step-by-step exercises to build new habits and reduce symptoms like panic or depression.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can guide practical work, teach exercises to practice between meetings, and help people use skills at home and at work without promising specific results.
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Experience
21+ years
Listed in
Wisconsin, Minnesota
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, grief, anger, intimacy concerns, eating problems, parenting challenges, ADHD, and related areas such as communication problems and guilt.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and client-centered. She listens closely, teaches concrete skills, and sets small practice tasks that help clients try new behaviors between sessions.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 21 years of clinical experience working in community and private settings, including work with severe mental illness and survivors of childhood abuse.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in Wisconsin as noted in her profile.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients connect with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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