About Zhanna
Zhanna Cohen uses a person-centered approach to build a strong therapeutic relationship first. She focuses on what matters to the individual and shapes sessions around practical goals. Zhanna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and also holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC.
She works from Connecticut and speaks English and Russian. She helps people facing relationship strain, anger, depression, and major life changes. Career questions, parenting stress, and challenges with self-esteem are also common topics she addresses.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders such as seasonal affective disorder. Her work often includes cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness practices and existential conversation can help people find meaning and direction.
Zhanna adapts these methods to each person’s situation rather than using the same plan for everyone. Clients may bring issues tied to family of origin, adoption and foster care, attachment or fatherhood concerns. She also addresses control issues, impulsivity, hoarding, phobias, and forgiveness work.
Gender dysphoria and self-love are listed among her areas of focus. Zhanna has practiced for 12 years, and she draws on that experience to offer straightforward guidance. She aims for clear steps and tools people can use between sessions.
The tone in sessions is respectful and direct, with a focus on what helps move things forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Zhanna often combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and gives practical tools to change them, which can help with depression, anxiety, and mood regulation.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or impulsivity are a concern. DBT teaches concrete coping skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions, which can be practiced between sessions and discussed during therapy. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client work together to find what fits the person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than assuming one method will be best from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick, brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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