About Ayanna
Ayanna Gill-Cooper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Ayanna aims to make the first steps toward change feel safer and more manageable.
She creates a calm, open space where clients can say what they’re feeling without judgment. Conversations are straightforward and practical, with attention to immediate concerns and daily coping.
How Ayanna works
Ayanna offers support for grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue, and she also helps people facing challenges with self-esteem, anger, and eating concerns. Her work includes guidance around parenting and family-related stress, relationship strains, and issues affecting LGBT people. She brings a multicultural perspective and pays attention to how culture and identity shape each person’s experience.
Ayanna also supports those living with bipolar disorder and people coping with life transitions. Therapy sessions tend to focus on what people are living through now, what helps day to day, and small steps toward feeling a bit better. She encourages people to build practical skills and to notice progress between sessions.
The tone in sessions is supportive and empowering rather than directive. Ayanna offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Prospective clients begin by using the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
What Ayanna works with
The areas below are the ones Ayanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Ayanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present-day problems and practical coping. One common approach emphasizes learning specific coping skills to manage anxiety and stress, such as breath work, grounding, and routine changes to reduce overwhelm. These skills are useful for worry, panic, and daily tension.Another approach centers on processing grief and trauma through patient-paced conversations and stabilization techniques that reduce reactivity. This helps people feel steadier after losses or distressing events and supports better day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Ayanna works collaboratively with each person to identify what feels most helpful based on their goals, day-to-day needs, and cultural background. She adjusts methods over time as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video sessions allow fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions can fit into short breaks or when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care and keep consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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