Akemi Horii, LPC NCC

Soul Awakening, LLC offers client-centered virtual therapy for individuals in Ohio, focusing on overcoming anxiety, depression, and past trauma. Led by Akemi Horii LPC NCC, a Licensed Professional Counselor, the practice utilizes various therapeutic modalities including Internal Family Systems (IFS Level 1), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness to empower clients and improve their quality of life. In addition to traditional psychotherapy, we now provide Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for individuals who want to explore deeply to work with a long term anxiety and depression (medical intake required). See website https://www.soulawakeningllc.com/ for details and request a 15 min free consultation.

Akemi Horii is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Ohio. Akemi provides psychotherapy and psychoeducation to adult clients in individual setting.

Akemi’s client-centered therapeutic approach is influenced by the Internal Family Systems (Level-1 obtained), Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and other modalities, to help clients embrace themselves and feel empowered in their life situations. Akemi also provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in partnership with Journey Clinical.

Akemi has always been interested in learning about people, initially through her experience in languages, history, and art. Prior to obtaining a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she had a Bachelor’s degree in anthropology, as well as Master’s degrees in biblical Hebrew and Greek, and Islamic art and archaeology.

As Akemi’s professional interests further developed to work directly with clients in clinical settings, she is passionate to get to know them at a deeper level to help grow their individual pathways. Originally from Japan, Akemi has lived, studied, and worked in finance, technology, and research and education, in San Francisco, Chicago, London and Oxford in the United Kingdom, and the Middle East, before moving to Ohio in 2021. When not working, Akemi is keen to practice and explore ways to enrich her body and soul through self-care and to appreciate the beauty of southwest Ohio with her family and their dog.

Akemi is clinically supervised by Margaret Pennington, MA, LPCC-S.