My name is Ida Ansell, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in New Orleans, LA. I offer an in-depth approach to therapy where we work together to explore the areas of your life and identity in which you struggle. In order to build this type of relationship, I will provide you with a culturally sensitive, open, and accepting environment that enables exploration of experience, being, and consciousness. My area of focus includes but is not limited to: inter & intrapersonal conflict, racial & gender identity, sexuality, and complex trauma. 

I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) practices to a psychodynamic orientation which are perspectives that believe the emotional responses that keep us stuck developed during childhood as a way to protect the self from what was too overwhelming, intolerable, or unmanageable. IFS externalizes these behaviors and coping strategies into separate parts or sub-personalities within an internal system which allows us to compassionately interact with them in the therapy room. As self-compassion builds, your innate wisdom unlocks and enables you to step into your integrity & find inner peace.

I have experience working with clients who struggle with addiction, depression & anxiety, relationship & attachment issues, men's issues, LGBTQ+ issues, grief, and trauma. I co-facilitate white racial identity process groups as well as offer individual racial identity coaching for counselors-in-training & educators.