Ayanna Gill-Cooper, LPC

Ayanna Gill-Cooper is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience practicing in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing depression, grief, and trauma. Her approach centers on creating a calm space where people can talk through difficult feelings without judgment.

Ayanna emphasizes practical steps and steady support. She encourages small, doable changes and helps people build coping skills that fit daily life. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to how cultural background shapes experience and healing.

She listens for patterns that keep problems in place, then partners with clients to try new ways of responding. This can include practicing breathing and grounding techniques, learning ways to reframe stressful thoughts, and setting boundaries that reduce overwhelm.

People who come to Ayanna often want clearer ways to manage emotions, reduce panic or worry, or find direction after a big life change. She also supports those coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, identity concerns, and compassion fatigue.

Her work honors cultural differences and aims to make therapy relevant to each person’s background. Seeking help takes courage, and she offers steady encouragement while people work toward greater balance and well-being.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Ayanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and change. One common approach helps people recognize and challenge stressful thoughts, then try alternative, more balanced ways of thinking. This can reduce worry and make choices feel clearer.

Another approach centers on building concrete coping skills such as breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test new responses to stress. These techniques aim to give tools people can use between sessions to manage acute anxiety or strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ayanna will work with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts the plan over time so work in therapy matches what is most helpful in daily life.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also help people stay consistent with care when juggling work, family, or other responsibilities.