Rasheed Ojerinde, LMFT

Rasheed Ojerinde is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Indiana with eight years of clinical experience. He brings a bicultural millennial perspective to his work and emphasizes sensitivity to cultural and social factors when supporting people from diverse backgrounds. Rasheed has provided direct mental health and behavioral counseling across a wide age range, working with clients from early childhood through late adulthood.

His practice draws on an integrative, holistic framework and seeks to combine evidence-informed techniques with collaborative problem solving. Over the years he has worked in community mental health agencies, state clinics, general hospitals, and day treatment facilities, gaining experience with a broad spectrum of presenting concerns. He has particular experience addressing intimacy and trust issues, ADHD symptoms, emotional regulation, anxiety disorders, and depression, and he also works with stress, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, self-esteem, career transitions, and issues related to sexual orientation and identity.

Rasheed’s approach is rooted in partnership - blending clinical theories and practical strategies to tailor care to each person’s needs. He aims to build a genuine, trusting therapeutic relationship that helps people better understand themselves, improve interpersonal connections, and move toward greater fulfillment as individuals and in their roles as partners, parents, and professionals. He welcomes the courage it takes to begin and is ready to support the first steps toward change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Rasheed uses approaches that emphasize understanding relationships, individual experience, and thinking patterns to support change. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape emotional needs and patterns - it can be helpful for intimacy, trust, and family-related concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and perspectives, offering an accepting, nonjudgmental environment where clients explore values, identity, and self-worth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be effective for anxiety, depression, and problems with emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Rasheed collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting approaches over time so therapy remains relevant and practical.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit care into busy lives - sessions via video call and phone allow face-to-face connection, while live chat and text-based messaging make shorter or more frequent check-ins possible. These options help make consistent support more accessible for people with different schedules, locations, and comfort levels, and licensed professionals can use them to deliver meaningful, goal-focused work.