About Ilene
Ilene Vallance, LMSW, has provided mental health services for more than three decades. She practices from Michigan and brings long experience from both public and personal settings. Her style is relaxed and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on helping adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Ilene listens first to understand what matters to each person. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to address unhelpful thoughts and build steadier routines.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Ilene emphasizes teaching skills people can use between meetings, such as grounding techniques for anxiety, sleep strategies, and emotion regulation tools for intense feelings.
She also supports people coping with grief, trauma, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and workplace burnout. Her work includes addressing relationship strain, communication problems, codependency, and parenting stress one person at a time. Ilene also assists with career concerns, compassion fatigue, and decision-making during major life changes.
She aims to help people regain footing and move toward clearer choices. Practical scheduling is part of her approach. Sessions can be arranged across several formats, and she offers flexible weekday and some weekend appointment options.
Ilene invites people to start by matching on the site and then scheduling a time that fits their routine.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Ilene commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce reactivity and improve calm in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ilene works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and pace. She reviews options in early sessions and adjusts tools as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible ways to share updates, ask questions between sessions, and practice skills when daily life gets busy. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on usable coping strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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