Ilene Cooper, LCSW, CSW

Ilene Cooper, LCSW, CSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She combines practical, evidence-informed methods with a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance to help clients identify goals, explore how their history shapes current patterns, and develop concrete strategies for change. LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker; CSW is an additional clinical social work credential. Her Georgia license is listed as GA LCSW CSW003312.

Ilene has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is certified in Imago Relationship Therapy and mindfulness-based approaches. She has also trained with Drs. John and Julie Gottman and studied Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples work. That blend of approaches supports work on mood disorders, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, grief, addiction, and other issues that affect daily functioning and close relationships.

Whether addressing parenting and caregiver stress, intimacy and commitment questions, career and life transitions, or long-term mood concerns, Ilene focuses on collaborative care. She works with people across a broad spectrum of concerns - including LGBT issues, eating and sleeping challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue - and tailors interventions to each person or couple to help them move toward the life and relationships they envision.

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Ilene Cooper

Ilene draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical, skills-based strategies that are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many daily coping challenges.

She also integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy for couples, which centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses between partners so they can build more secure, connected relationships. In addition, training with the Gottman approach informs her work on communication patterns, conflict management, and strengthening friendship within partnerships.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ilene works with each person or couple to assess needs, preferences, and goals, then tailors methods accordingly. She views treatment as a partnership in which therapists and clients experiment with strategies and adjust plans over time.

Online sessions - whether by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to access consistent care from a licensed professional. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and allow therapy to fit into busy lives while preserving the same professional therapeutic guidance offered in traditional settings.