About Wynona
Wynona Russ is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Louisiana. She brings five years of clinical experience to work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Wynona focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day to feel more steady and capable.
She helps people manage trauma, grief, and intimacy-related issues using straightforward, evidence-based methods. Wynona also supports those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and career transitions.
How Wynona works
She pays attention to cultural context and the unique pressures that can come from identity and life changes. Many clients come for help with family and parenting strain, blended family challenges, communication breakdowns, and patterns like codependency or control issues. Wynona works with people on forgiveness, guilt, shame, and rebuilding trust after infidelity.
She also addresses mood disorders, bipolar concerns, panic attacks, and ADHD-related coping strategies. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with practical skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies. Mindfulness and trauma-focused methods are used when they fit the client’s goals.
Sessions aim to combine clear tools with room to talk about what matters most. Wynona emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients define goals, try new behaviors, and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on real-life change and steady emotional growth.
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What Wynona works with
The areas below are the ones Wynona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Wynona uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting working relationship where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports. This approach helps people clarify goals and feel heard before moving to skills work.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and for shifting routines around sleep and eating.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Wynona will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation times, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide brief, written support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
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