Wanda Olugbala, LMSW

Wanda Olugbala is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 30 years of practice experience. She focuses on helping people who have spent a long time caring for others and now feel worn out, anxious, or stuck. Wanda aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on practical change.

She uses clear, goal-oriented methods to look at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Sessions address things like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. Wanda also works with concerns such as ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.

Wanda combines talk-based work with practical exercises. She helps clients set boundaries, build routines, and practice small habits that add up over time. The emphasis is on things a person can start doing between sessions to feel steadier and more in control.

Her style is collaborative and respectful. She avoids long lectures and instead asks questions, listens, and offers tools that match each person’s life. Sessions aim to honor a client’s values while shifting patterns that cause distress.

Wanda draws from several therapeutic approaches to fit a person’s needs. She often blends techniques to address relationships, thought patterns, and life stories. This flexible approach supports people through midlife changes, career stress, family issues, and the practical demands of caregiving.

How her approaches work online

Wanda often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in remote sessions. CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises you can try between sessions. ACT helps people notice their values and commit to actions that bring more meaning, even when uncomfortable feelings remain.

She treats the choice of approach as a joint decision. During early sessions she will ask about goals, challenges, and what feels doable. Together the client and Wanda shape a plan that blends techniques to meet those goals, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and homework exchanges easier between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily demands.