About Ilana
Ilana Wahlder is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 21 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem problems. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction issues, and major life changes.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use day to day. Ilana pays attention to how past family experiences and communication patterns affect current relationships.
Background and approach
She draws on Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness techniques help clients learn to calm intense emotions and notice patterns without judgment.
People work on concrete skills such as clearer communication, managing mood swings, and coping with isolation or guilt. Ilana also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, codependency, and fatherhood issues when they relate to a client’s goals. Her approach is collaborative and practical.
She helps clients set short-term goals and build habits that support long-term change. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s priorities and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space; it helps when a client needs support in finding their own answers or clarifying values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit change by providing specific tools and homework to practice.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each person to try methods that fit their goals and preferences, and adjusts the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative process means approaches can be mixed and adapted over time to meet changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging is useful for ongoing reflections and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity during transitions, and practice new skills between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English