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WELCOME TO INSKILLS!
Your Path to Wellness and Emotional Acuity

I hope this message finds you well! If not, you have absolutely come to the right place! Navigating life‘s ups and downs can be tough. At InSkills we believe everyone has the right to captain their own destiny! We believe every person--every, single person has a right to happiness, joy, emotional acuity, wellness, and confidence no matter your story, no matter your background. InSkills provides a listening ear and a way up and out of whatever ick's got a hold of you.

Our Chat Therapy Model
Our Chat Therapy model offers all of the goodness of mental health treatment without the stifling walls! Our chat therapy model offers light yet effective short term counseling and coaching interventions for your mental health and wellness needs through more of a friendship model! Let's sip coffee together or go for a walk! Let's get up and out like two dear friends chatting about your emotional wellness.

Onward and Upward
If you are looking to live your best most incredible life, get a handle on your emotions, source your joy, confidence and peace of mind, develop your leadership and communications skills and get to the business of being the very best version of you, we are right here to help you do just that! Check out our chat therapy options and choose a course that fits for you!


Chat Therapy Basics

Got chores? Groceries to buy? A favorite cafe? A dog that needs walking? Let’s get up and out and work to resolve whatever is ailin’ you! You pick the place! You pick the topics you want to cover! $250/hr- $400/2hrs. (Please note, sessions are a full 60 minutes)! Chat therapy is designed to help you navigate your woes in 3 sessions or less! Let’s see what we can conquer together!

Chat Therapy Air Waves

Need to chat now or close to now for a not-so emergency emergency? Chat Therapy Air waves allows you to phone your coach to reach out right away to soothe that problem that’s been gnawing at ya! Our phone a friend Air Waves option starts at $90/30 min. and is pro-rated for times when 10 minutes was more than enough time to help you decompress!

Chat Therapy Wellness Overhaul

Adulting is tough. Dating is tough. Connecting is tough. Relating is tough. Communicating is tough. Not being anxious is tough. This full day coaching experience puts a coach “in a day in your life” to help you identify, evaluate, and navigate the areas that need rebooting and to help you quickly develop the tools to successfully reboot them! Build your confidence, improve your dating game, conquer your goals, soothe your soul all within 3 sessions or less! Define your values, gain clarity, and get your @#$ together with this full day coaching experience! $1000/full day (5+ hours of uninterrupted coaching up to 7 hours)! Find out if Chat Therapy Overhaul is right for you!

Got Teams?

InSkills offers group workshops for businesses, corporations, and private parties on topics that promote insight and wisdom, others-centeredness, leadership development, confidence and competence building, emotional wellness, and communicating across difference.

Meet your Coach image
With over twenty years of experience in the counseling, coaching, training, mentoring, and education fields, Shalina J. Akins is a highly experienced mental health counseling professional dedicated to making easier the lives of others! Through her work helping to promote healthy children, families, couples, individuals, and teams, Shalina discovered that humanity’s development of emotional acuity is inextricably tied to our ability to source and sustain our own joy and happiness.  She is committed to helping folks thrive!

Shalina holds a Masters in Education in Mental Health Counseling and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational and Organizational Leadership at Seattle University with the end goal of helping to create simple, fun, interactive, and immersive ways to develop strong, resilient, others-centered, whole, competent, and compassionate kids, individuals, organizations, and leaders. When she’s not rooting for the wellness of others, Shalina loves to clean, dance, learn languages, and go for long destination-free walks.

Let’s get you to your joy!

We are here to listen, here to help!

Looking forward to working with you!

Warmly,

Shalina J. Akins CEO
Mental Health Counselor MA. Ed.
Certified Life Coach



*Shalina J. Akins is currently in the Seattle area! Beat the Seattle freeze blues! Book an appointment today! *Email is for direct contact only! I will not bombard your account with any unsolicited emails. You’re very very welcome!:)