About Chani
Chani Cochran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 19 years of experience. She has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings and now sees clients in independent practice. Chani focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and challenges around self-esteem and identity.
She also supports people facing addictions, compassion fatigue, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and struggles with intimacy, grief, or major life changes.
How Chani works
Chani helps with relationship and family issues, parenting strain, career pressures, and problems like codependency or communication breakdowns. She pays attention to how chronic illness, body image, and eating concerns affect daily life. Chani uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s priorities at the center of therapy.
She combines that with practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and attachment-based work. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with skills and reflection mixed together. She places strong emphasis on trust and honesty and checks in often about how the work is going.
The process is collaborative - Chani asks people what they want to change and helps map steps toward those goals. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make progress feel manageable. If someone is ready to begin, Chani guides them through a matching and scheduling process to find a rhythm that fits their life and needs.
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What Chani works with
The areas below are the ones Chani selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches in online care
Chani often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps determine whether ACT, CBT, attachment-based ideas, or a mix will be used in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to pick formats that match comfort and scheduling needs.
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