About Ayanna
Ayanna Mills is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with relationships, self-esteem, depression, addiction, trauma, and career changes. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at people who want practical steps and clear conversation.
She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions tend to focus on coping skills, understanding patterns, and building healthier ways to handle strong emotions.
Background and approach
Ayanna keeps language simple and actionable so people can try new strategies between meetings. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling. She has 13 years of experience in the mental health field and has worked with a wide range of concerns and life situations.
That breadth helps her adapt to different challenges. Ayanna emphasizes honest, empathetic connection. She aims to create a space where people can speak openly and test small changes.
She pays attention to what each person is ready for and moves at a practical pace. Typical sessions involve talking through current problems, developing steps to reduce stress or depressive symptoms, and practicing skills that support relationships and self-worth. She also addresses issues like codependency, abandonment, caregiver stress, and substance-related problems when they come up.
People who want straightforward guidance and steady support may find her approach helpful. She invites those ready to make changes to begin with a short matching process and schedule a first session.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Ayanna commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online practice. ACT focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and helps people commit to values-based actions. CBT looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches specific skills to change thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or depression active.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She listens to each person's goals, preferences, and daily life, and then recommends strategies that fit. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to focus on values and acceptance, practical thought changes, or a mix of techniques.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversation. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing brief support and easy scheduling around work or caregiving demands.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I get started with therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.