Client-centered virtual therapy for individuals in Ohio

Are you suffering from anxiety, depression or feeling overwhelmed?

Are you angry, sad, or numb in daily life because you are stuck in past trauma? Are you struggling to get out of bed to go on another day? Do you no longer care about what you used to enjoy and made you laugh?

If so, welcome to Soul Awakening, LLC. This is where you will receive a safe space, respect and genuine attention. Together, you will work through to improve the quality of life. We are honored to be part of your life journey.

We specialize in helping our clients work through:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Trauma

  • Life transitions

    • Relocation

    • Career change

    • Spiritual Shifts

  • Losses

    • Miscarriage

    • Loss of family member or friend

  • Changing relationships & family

    • Marital or relationship issues

Therapeutic Modalities

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS is a non-pathologizing, evidence-based psychotherapy modality, which views life difficulties as protective and wounded inner parts reacting and aims to transform, empower, and heal through accessing and understanding them.

Client-Centered Therapy

Pioneered by Carl Rogers in early 1940s, this evidence-based psychotherapy modality is client-guided (vis-à-vis clinician-guided) and it helps clients become aware and find their best solutions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy modality, which provides clients opportunity to become self-aware and alter unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral eye movements and it is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma. Extensive and ongoing research on EMDR therapy supports positive clinical outcomes on trauma and PTSD symptoms anxiety, depression, OCD, and addictions.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

KAP is a holistic, psychedelic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help patients, particularly those with depression and anxiety. KAP psychotherapy is provided in partnership with Journey Clinical.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

SFBT is a short-term focused evidence-based modality to focus on constructing solutions instead of analyzing problems.

Akemi Horii, LPC NCC

Akemi Horii is a founder-owner of Soul Awakening, LLC. Akemi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Ohio, and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) credentialed by the National Board of Certified Counselors. At Soul Awakening, Akemi provides individual psychotherapy and psychoeducation to adult clients who reside in Ohio via telehealth.

Akemi specializes in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, evidence-based and extensively researched psychotherapy to alleviate the trauma and PTSD symptoms, trained by the EMDRIA-approved Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute, Inc. Akemi also specializes in Internal Family Systems (IFS Level 1 completed), an evidence-based therapeutic modality that helps heal the protective and wounded parts in a non-pathologizing and empowering way.

Akemi provides Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in partnership with Journey Clinical to the clients who want to safely explore deeper into their long-term issues. Eligibility subject to Journey Clinical’s medical evaluation.

Akemi’s multicultural and authentic therapeutic style is also eclectically integrated with Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solution Focused Brief Therapy depending on client needs. She helps clients embrace themselves and feel empowered in their life situations. 

Outside Soul Awakening, Akemi has provided clinical and human services including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, and prevention programs for mental health and substance use disorders in nonprofit and private outpatient clinics, public schools, and community settings.

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