About Ilene
Ilene Vallance, LMSW, brings more than three decades of mental health experience to her work. She practices from Michigan and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship worries, and major life transitions. Her tone is relaxed and nonjudgmental, and she aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk about what feels hard.
Ilene uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and build a meaningful life alongside difficult feelings. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy skills are part of her toolbox for grounding and emotional regulation. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Ilene listens for what matters most and then helps set small, doable steps. She can also coach people through career stress, parenting strain, grief, chronic health concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes long experience in both public and personal settings.
That history shaped a flexible approach to scheduling and to the variety of problems people bring. Ilene emphasizes clear communication and practical problem solving in session. People who reach out should expect a calm, validating presence and concrete strategies.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit different routines and needs. Ilene supports clients who want steady coping skills, improved relationships, and better daily functioning.
Practical approaches for online treatment and coping skills
Ilene uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, then try different responses to change how they feel. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy - ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take meaningful actions even when feelings are uncomfortable. ACT can be useful for stress, chronic health concerns, and persistent worry.Finding the right approach is something she treats as a team effort. She talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she suggests strategies and adjusts the plan as needed so the work fits the client's life and values.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for those juggling busy schedules. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera time is limited, and live chat or text messaging can provide quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum, try skills in real time, and fit therapy into a workday or caregiving schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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