About Zhanna
Zhanna Cohen is a licensed mental health counselor who blends warm listening with practical tools. She brings 12 years of experience and holds LMHC and LPC credentials. Zhanna speaks English and Russian and is based in Connecticut.
Her practice centers on a client-centered approach. She meets people where they are and builds goals together. Sessions often focus on immediate concerns like depression, anger, relationship stress, career change, and phobias.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior tools are offered when people need skills for managing strong emotions and impulsivity. Mindfulness and existential ideas are woven in to help with meaning, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Zhanna also supports people navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment and family of origin concerns, gender dysphoria questions, and fatherhood challenges.
She works with struggles such as hoarding, addictions, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood shifts, and low self-love by tailoring plans to each person’s situation. Sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients may be seen.
To begin, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches and what online therapy offers
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and tailoring the conversation to each person. It helps people clarify values, set goals, and feel heard while they make changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It helps people who struggle with depression, anxiety, phobias, or unhelpful habits by teaching simple exercises to test thoughts and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides skills for managing intense emotions and impulsive actions. It can be useful when anger, impulsivity, or relationship conflict feels overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zhanna will help clients choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and may combine techniques as progress unfolds. This is a collaborative process meant to shape a plan that feels workable.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let visual cues guide the conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and adapt therapy to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Russian
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