About Ilana
Ilana Wahlder is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who helps people handle stress, anxiety, and life changes. She focuses on self-esteem, relationship and intimacy struggles, grief, addiction, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar. Her straightforward approach aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable for everyday life.
She uses a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions often center on practical skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and cognitive techniques are used to notice thought patterns and reduce unhelpful reactions. Ilana describes her style as warm and inclusive. She pays attention to how background, identity, and life events shape what someone is facing now.
That includes exploring family of origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, and feelings around abandonment or isolation. Clients may work on goals such as rebuilding self-worth, coping with career or parenting stress, or navigating fertility and fatherhood questions. She also supports people dealing with anger, addiction, and codependency by focusing on concrete steps and clearer boundaries.
With more than 21 years of experience, Ilana brings long-term practice to each session. She integrates motivational interviewing and narrative approaches to help people find purpose and make meaningful changes in their lives.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them feel heard. It emphasizes the client’s own goals and pace, and it can be useful for issues like self-esteem, grief, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, and teaches clear strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood symptoms. Existential Therapy invites people to examine values, meaning, and life choices when facing big transitions or questions about purpose.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals and try different techniques to see what helps most. Together they’ll adjust the plan based on what feels most useful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video and phone allow deeper conversation when a longer check-in is needed. Live chat works for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers typing. Text-based messaging can fit into busy days and help keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other commitments while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist 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
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