Ilana Wahlder, LPC

Ilana Wahlder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 21 years of clinical experience helping people navigate emotional challenges and meaningful life changes. She specializes in working with stress, anxiety, self-esteem concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, mood disorders, trauma, grief, and a broad range of family and interpersonal difficulties. Her work also addresses specific focuses such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, codependency, fertility and fatherhood issues, and the complexities of family-of-origin dynamics.

Wahlder brings a compassionate, inclusive stance to therapy, supporting clients through workplace stress, transitions in life stages, and questions of sexuality and identity. Her approach centers on fostering self-awareness, improving communication, and rebuilding a sense of self-worth when guilt, shame, or isolation are present. She draws on established clinical methods to help clients develop practical coping strategies and to pursue purposeful personal growth.

Clients seeking guidance for relationship struggles, parenting concerns, career crossroads, or recovery from addiction or abuse will find a clinician focused on collaboration, respect, and steady professional insight. As an LPC, Wahlder combines clinical skill with an empathetic presence to help people move toward clearer goals and healthier patterns in their daily lives.