Augustina Garba

Augustina Garba is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPCC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and parenting challenges. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem, anger, eating concerns, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.

Augustina earned a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in 2002 and began her career working in adult mental health settings. Early work included supporting people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and serving children who had experienced severe abuse and neglect. Those experiences shaped her focus on healing and practical change.

She offers individual therapy and works with couples on relationship and divorce issues. Augustina also provides help to adult survivors of childhood abuse who are coping with depression, post-traumatic stress, panic, and long-standing stress reactions. Her approach mixes listening with concrete tools and homework to support progress between sessions.

In private practice since 2009, she emphasizes collaboration and steady support. Sessions aim to rebuild confidence and teach skills that make daily life easier. Augustina strives to be consistent, reliable, and focused on helping people move toward hope and lasting change.

If you want a therapist who pairs practical exercises with reflective conversation, she offers a straightforward, goal-minded style rooted in two decades of practice.

Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with mood, anxiety, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s own experience, offering empathy and acceptance while supporting self-directed change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaboration helps tailor strategies to what feels most useful for daily life and relationships.

If you plan to use online sessions, confirm which formats are currently offered before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier and help fit therapy into busy routines, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Many people find it simpler to practice skills learned in sessions during normal days, and therapists can assign exercises that fit each person’s schedule and environment.