About Ilana
Ilana Wahlder is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 21 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and problems with intimacy and relationships. Her work also covers grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges tied to career and life changes.
Ilana favors a straightforward, compassionate style. She listens carefully and helps people name what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit daily life, such as building coping skills, improving communication, and managing mood swings.
How Ilana works
Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness. That means she will center the person's goals, look at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and teach simple awareness practices. Motivational interviewing and existential discussion are also part of her toolkit when people face hard choices or life transitions.
She has worked for more than two decades with issues like family of origin struggles, codependency, abandonment, and fertility or fatherhood concerns. Ilana also supports people dealing with bipolar and other mood or personality disorders, and those processing adoption, foster care, or midlife shifts. In sessions she uses plain language and concrete strategies.
People can expect focused conversations, skill-building, and space to reflect on values and meaning. Her goal is to help clients find clearer direction and more manageable daily routines.
Ilana lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Ilana works with
The areas below are the ones Ilana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Ilana often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping each person set their own goals, which is useful for improving self-esteem and building trust. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns, which helps with anxiety, depression, and mood management. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation during stressful moments.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and focus on what helps the individual make small, steady changes.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are lower bandwidth and easier during a busy day, short live chats suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or travel schedules.
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