Augustina Garba
Practical, trauma-informed therapy with collaborative care
LPCC, LPC Wisconsin
- Experience
- 21 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Augustina
Augustina Garba brings more than two decades of counseling experience to clients in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, mood challenges, and issues such as self-esteem, parenting, and intimacy.
Background and approach
Her career began after earning a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in 2002, and she holds LPCC and LPC credentials. Early work with adults experiencing severe mental illness and time spent with severely abused and neglected children shaped her commitment to family- and trauma-informed care.
Since opening a independent practice in 2009, she has provided individual and family therapy and supported adult survivors of childhood abuse through recovery from related difficulties including depression, panic symptoms, PTSD, and stress. She also works with couples on communication, anger management, divorce and separation issues, and relationship rebuilding.
Her style blends collaborative listening with practical skill-building, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques alongside acceptance, mindfulness, and emotionally focused methods. She aims to help clients regain a sense of agency by offering concrete strategies, assigned exercises, and steady therapeutic partnership to support lasting change.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Augustina often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-based action and greater psychological flexibility when navigating painful thoughts and emotions. These methods translate into targeted exercises, thought records, and experiential practices that can be worked through in remote sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to assess goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, and will adapt techniques from CBT, ACT, or client-centered methods as the therapeutic relationship and progress unfold. Clients are invited to give feedback so interventions reflect their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from home. These formats support consistent practice of skills between sessions and allow for timely check-ins, homework review, and ongoing collaboration with a licensed professional.
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Experience
21+ years
Licensed
Wisconsin, Minnesota
Languages
English