Ayanna Gill-Cooper , LPC

Ayanna Gill-Cooper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Mississippi with 22 years of professional experience. The LPC designation indicates formal training and state licensure to provide mental health counseling and support.

She has substantial experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety, working side by side with clients to explore their thoughts and feelings. Her approach emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where concerns can be voiced and processed in a way that feels manageable and respectful.

Ayanna recognizes the courage involved in seeking a more fulfilling and happier life and in taking the first steps toward change. She focuses on supporting and empowering clients through those early and ongoing steps, helping them move toward goals that matter to them.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Ayanna Gill-Cooper incorporates practical, evidence-based approaches to help clients build skills and manage symptoms. One common focus is skill-building and coping strategies - short-term exercises and tools that teach techniques for managing stress, anxiety, and everyday emotional challenges. These techniques help clients develop concrete ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings.

She also applies trauma-informed ways of working that prioritize understanding how past hurts affect present functioning. This approach helps people process painful experiences at a pace that feels manageable and supports healing related to trauma, grief, and loss. In addition, she offers family-focused work that addresses parenting and relationship dynamics, offering guidance for improving communication and problem solving within family systems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and she collaborates with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. In the online setting, those same approaches are delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexible access to licensed professionals. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not possible.