Aloha and Welcome...

Akua Family Therapy - Established 2018

Welcome to the group practice of Akua Family Therapy. Akua Family Therapy is owned and operated by Aaron Akua Collins, who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. At Akua Family Therapy you may be placed with a pre-licensed therapist. All of our pre-licensed therapists are Masters level graduates, have achieved all their qualifications to practice counseling/therapy and are supervised by Aaron Collins, LMFT. At Akua Family Therapy all our therapists hold to the highest standard of following all laws, ethics and professional boundaries. 

At Akua Family Therapy, our goal is to help you strengthen relationships, improve mental health and adjust to changes in your life. As we serve our community, we believe in providing services that are ethical, professional, culturally sensitive and trauma-informed.  

We help couples, individuals and families. Whether you want help working through a hurt and conflicted relationship or looking for mental health support, relief, insight or change, Akua Family Therapy is confident and hopeful that we can help you get to where you want to be mentally and relationally.

We believe that you are worth investing in. We hope that you will see yourself and your relationships as valuable and worth working on. 

Our Therapists

Our services are primarily centered around mental health support in the context of relationships. Whether it's anxiety, depression, adjustment, post-traumatic stress, or something else, we help you work through your individual mental health concerns while also helping you process relationships. 

Our Locations

Kurtistown

Our Kurtistown office is our primary location. It is a shared space with Kurtistown Assembly of God church, located at 17-550 Volcano Hwy., Kurtistown, HI 96760. We utilize the second building on the right when you pull in the driveway. We have three therapy rooms. We ask that upon arrival, you have a seat on the lanai or waiting area and your therapist will attend to you at your scheduled appointment time. 

Hilo

Aaron Collins sees clients on a limited basis Wednesdays at the Hilo office located at 17 Furneaux Ln., suite 208. This is a shared office space with Olena Counseling. Clients must be able to walk up a flight of stairs. Upon arriving clients will wait downstairs, outside the brown double doors until your appoint time. Either Aaron or one of his previous clients will open the door for you to come up. 

Hawaii - Telehealth

We serve all of Hawaii via our SimplePractice Telehealth app. 

Every client will have access to their own SimplePractice Client Portal where you can schedule appointments, sign & upload documents, attend telehealth appointments, see your billing invoices, message your therapist privately and more. Interested in seeing one of our therapists?  You may request an appointment here. One of our therapists will follow up by emailing you our intake paperwork including our general policy, HIPAA privacy policy, intake questionnaire and a few other documents.  We give scheduling priority to clients who fill out requested documents.