Alan Cochrane, LCMHC

Alan Cochrane is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing from Utah with 35 years of experience. He draws on a long career helping people face life changes, stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He aims to meet clients where they are and support steady progress over time.

Alan describes his role as a guide. He helps people look inward, notice patterns, and make practical changes that fit their values. Sessions tend to be warm and straightforward, with room for humor and honest reflection.

He uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of his work for addressing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also brings client-centered listening and mindfulness practices to daily coping and emotional regulation.

Hypnotherapy and Jungian influences show up when exploring deeper themes like identity, attachment, or long-standing patterns. Those tools are used alongside plain talk and skill-building, not as a replacement for everyday strategies.

Alan often helps people with relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related struggles. He also supports those dealing with career stress, codependency, and impulse control problems. His style is nonjudgmental, encouraging people to discover strengths while working on difficult habits.

Outside of therapy he enjoys hiking and being in nature around Utah's red rock country. That background informs a calm, grounded approach focused on small, steady steps toward change.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Alan often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and stress. He also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping a person find their own pace and answers in therapy.

Those approaches can be combined with mindfulness exercises to improve emotional regulation and awareness, or with focused hypnotherapy when someone wants to address deeper patterns or persistent habits. Alan treats the choice of method as a collaborative decision and will help figure out what feels right based on a person’s goals and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions work well for fuller conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let someone keep momentum between longer sessions and make short updates or process immediate concerns. These options are intended to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.