About Edna
Edna Booker is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience who helps people facing addiction, trauma, depression, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns. She works with clients struggling with sleep, self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, and career stress. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Edna keeps the room simple and direct. She focuses on listening first and making space for worries and hard memories. She encourages clear goals and practical steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Clients can expect straightforward conversation and tools to try between sessions. Her work draws on client-centered care and cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful patterns and shift them over time. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness practices to manage strong emotions and build steadier routines.
Jungian ideas may be brought in to explore deeper personal stories when that seems useful. Edna has supported people through addiction, domestic violence, dissociation, and the long after-effects of abuse and disaster. She also addresses family of origin issues, codependency, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame.
She adapts methods to each person's needs rather than following a single formula. Work begins with a short conversation to clarify goals and the most helpful approach. From there she collaborates with each person to set achievable steps, practice skills, and track progress.
The emphasis is on real changes that make daily life easier and more meaningful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Edna combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to help people change thoughts and habits that keep them stuck. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy and letting clients lead the pace of work. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and gives concrete strategies for managing mood, sleep, and anxiety.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to help with intense emotions and relationship stress. DBT skills teach ways to tolerate distress, regulate feelings, and improve communication, which can be helpful for anger, addiction, and self-esteem issues.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The client’s preferences and day-to-day life guide which methods are emphasized.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people speak face-to-face and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Louisiana, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English