About Ayanna
Ayanna Gill-Cooper is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress and anxiety and creates a calm space for honest conversation. Ayanna emphasizes listening first and then working with each person to decide what to try next.
She aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental. People can talk through difficult feelings, past hurts, and the day-to-day stresses that interfere with life.
Background and approach
Ayanna supports work on mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and on reactions to trauma and grief. Ayanna also helps people navigate relationship strain, parenting questions, and issues that arise around identity, including LGBT concerns. She pays attention to cultural background and how it shapes a person’s experience and choices.
That multicultural focus guides how she frames problems and suggests next steps. Her approach centers on practical steps you can try between sessions as well as space to process emotions in the moment. Sessions may include talking, planning small changes, and practicing ways to cope with strong feelings.
The pace and focus are set together so the work matches personal goals. Ayanna invites people who want steady support while they work toward change. She encourages questions and aims to help clients feel more capable of handling stress, relationships, and life shifts one step at a time.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Ayanna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage worry and stress by breaking problems into smaller steps and practicing new responses. Another approach centers on working through painful events and strong emotions so they take up less space in daily life and stop driving reactions.Finding the right way to work is a team effort. Ayanna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try approaches that feel like a good fit. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most and invites feedback about pacing and priorities.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so sessions can fit around work, school, or caregiving. Video lets you use face-to-face time for deeper conversation, phone can be a shorter check-in without video, and messaging or live chat can be useful for quick support or when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep continuity while working on stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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