About Zhanna
Zhanna Cohen offers warm, practical care rooted in client-centered work. She is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 12 years of experience. Zhanna speaks English and Russian and supports people facing relationship strain, depression, anger, and life transitions.
Her sessions focus on clear, doable steps. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Dialectical behavior strategies help with strong emotions and impulsivity.
Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and present-moment awareness.
How Zhanna works
Zhanna has experience addressing adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and family of origin issues, and fatherhood topics. She also helps people managing addictions, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, phobias, and seasonal affective disorder. Parenting stress, low self-esteem, and questions about gender dysphoria are also within her areas of focus.
In appointments she listens first, then tailors the plan to each person. Conversations aim to be direct, respectful, and practical. The work can include behavior changes, coping skills, and steps to improve important relationships.
Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and measurable steps between sessions. She uses motivational interviewing to build commitment when change feels hard. Over time the goal is clearer choices, better emotion management, and greater self-acceptance.
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What Zhanna works with
The areas below are the ones Zhanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and working from each person's goals. The therapist follows your lead and helps shape sessions around what matters most to you, which fits well with remote appointments where goals are reviewed regularly.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In online sessions this can mean scheduling small experiments between meetings and using digital tools to track progress on mood and behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These skills are useful when strong feelings arise and can be practiced via phone check-ins, text-based reminders, or live chat exercises between video sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods match your needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide on-demand check-ins and brief skill practice. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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