About Alan
Alan Cochrane is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah with 35 years of experience. He combines a long career in counseling with a practical, person-first outlook. His approach is grounded and straightforward, aimed at helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
He works with concerns such as anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. He also helps with family-of-origin problems, communication and attachment issues, codependency, and challenges around parenting and career changes.
Background and approach
Phobias are one of the specific areas he lists attention to on his profile. His style is warm, direct, and nonjudgmental. He describes himself as a guide who walks alongside people while they look inward and build self-trust.
Sessions often include listening, practical exercises, and discussion aimed at identifying skills to use in daily life. Alan blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, Jungian ideas, and hypnotherapy when appropriate. He values intuition, humor, and honest feedback and invites clients to bring curiosity to the process.
The goal is steady, realistic change rather than quick fixes. Outside of practice he appreciates nature, hiking, and travel. That interest in the outdoors informs his calm, steady manner in sessions.
He encourages people to bring what matters to them and to take one small step at a time.
Approaches for online care and practical work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a trusting space where people can speak freely and explore what matters to them; it helps with low self-esteem, life changes, and relational concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses short, practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address patterns like avoidance. Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to access inner resources and can be used for habits, certain types of anxiety, and motivation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different methods to see what fits. Work is adjusted over time so methods match the client's needs and preferences rather than following a rigid plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people follow up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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