About Ilene
Ilene Cooper, LCSW, CSW, brings 20 years of clinical social work experience to her practice in Georgia. She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship challenges, and more. Her manner is direct and calm, focused on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Ilene works with individuals and people dealing with family or couple concerns to identify clear goals. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill building for managing strong feelings and changing unhelpful thoughts. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and shift thought patterns. She also uses mindfulness practices to help people stay grounded when feelings feel overwhelming.
For relationship work she uses tools drawn from Gottman and Imago approaches to improve communication and connection. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Ilene helps people name problems, try small experiments, and measure what works.
She talks through concrete strategies for sleep, eating, coping with change, addiction concerns, and career stress. Ilene’s background includes work with trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, mood disorders, and caregiving stress. She also supports people facing life transitions like aging, hospice and end-of-life planning, and divorce.
Her goal is practical progress that fits each person’s life and values.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Ilene uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes short exercises and small homework tasks that are easy to try between sessions and report back on during online meetings.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas for helping partners and individuals understand and shift emotional responses. EFT work often focuses on moments of emotional connection and teaches new ways to reach out and respond to one another.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ilene collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. She reviews progress together and adjusts strategies as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and real-time feedback. Phone sessions can fit a short break from work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and following up on homework between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is full.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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