Ilene Cooper
Compassionate clinical social worker helping you change patterns
LCSW, CSW Georgia
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Languages
- English
About Ilene
Ilene Cooper, LCSW, CSW brings more than 20 years of clinical social work experience to her therapeutic practice in Georgia. She draws on extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside relational and mindfulness-based approaches to help clients identify practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes study with the Gottmans and training in Emotionally-Focused Therapy as well as Imago Relationship Therapy, giving her a broad toolkit for working with individuals and couples. Ilene offers a calm, nonjudgmental setting where clients explore both present challenges and the ways past experiences shape current patterns.
She helps people examine thoughts and behaviors, develop coping strategies, and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others. Areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, addictions, trauma, intimacy issues, ADHD, and a range of life transitions and caregiving or aging-related matters.
Sessions emphasize collaboration and practical skill building tailored to each person’s goals. Ilene works with clients to consider solutions, rehearse different perspectives, and create plans that align with their values and circumstances.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses structured exercises and practical homework to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and to improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people and couples understand and reorganize emotional responses to strengthen attachment and connection; it is useful when relationship patterns and emotional reactivity feel stuck. Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental observation of thoughts and feelings, which can ease stress, improve emotional regulation, and support coping with chronic conditions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Ilene collaborates with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to adjust methods over time so treatment aligns with what matters most to each person. This collaborative process helps match practical strategies with relational and emotional work when appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to continue therapy from different locations within Georgia. These formats support consistent contact, allow for a range of therapeutic exercises, and let clients practice skills between sessions while maintaining continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Georgia
Languages
English