About Ilkem
Ilkem Onder is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with seven years of professional experience. She focuses on the whole person - mind, body, and behavior - to help people make clear, workable changes. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented, and she aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD-related concerns. Ilkem also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, problems with sleep or eating, parenting strain, career questions, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how daily habits and thoughts keep old problems going. In sessions she adapts methods to each person instead of using one strict plan. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to fit the situation.
The focus is on finding small, practical steps that move a person forward. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where they are heard and guided toward change. Ilkem encourages people to name what matters most and then build skills around those goals.
She supports exploring beliefs, changing unhelpful thinking, and practicing new routines. Her work also covers specific life stressors like caregiving burden, infertility and fertility struggles, end-of-life concerns, body image and self-esteem, and career transitions. She helps people untangle patterns tied to attachment, abandonment, guilt, and forgiveness so they can begin to make different choices.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects back what she hears, and helps set goals that matter to the client; it is useful for building trust and clarifying direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related challenges.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Simple practices and short exercises are used to help people notice patterns and respond differently to stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options and try strategies that match a person's goals, preferences, and pace. Together they track what helps and adjust methods over time to keep progress moving.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between visits. These choices give flexibility for different needs and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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