Dr. Ruby Akhigbe, LCSW

Dr. Ruby Akhigbe is an LCSW practicing in Texas with 27 years of clinical experience. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, anger, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems, and problems that arise after divorce or separation.

Dr. Akhigbe describes counseling as a practical way to break unhelpful patterns. She helps people notice repeated thoughts and behaviors and then try different responses. Sessions emphasize clearer communication, reducing rumination, and learning coping skills for mood and stress. Her work includes attention to relationship dynamics and family of origin challenges.

Her background includes a doctorate plus master’s and bachelor’s degrees, and she holds an LCSW in Texas. Over nearly three decades she has worked with people facing mood disorders, obsessive thoughts, bipolar-related concerns, and trauma symptoms. That experience shapes a straightforward, skills-focused approach in sessions.

Dr. Akhigbe uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered techniques. She describes her approach as eclectic and practical - choosing approaches that address the immediate problem and daily routines that maintain it.

In sessions she pays attention to communication skills such as active listening and seeking clarity. She helps people practice strategies between sessions and track small changes. Her goal in sessions is to help people reduce reactivity, interrupt negative cycles, and build clearer ways of relating to themselves and others.

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