About Ann
Ann Bevan is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana. She holds a Master of Social Work and brings six years of clinical experience to online therapy. Ann focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression.
She also supports clients facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and phobias. Ann aims for a calm, respectful approach in sessions. She listens closely and helps people name what feels hard.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps and understanding how past patterns affect present choices. Her style is patient and nonjudgmental. In sessions she draws on approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and emotional safety. Mindfulness practices are offered to slow anxiety and build coping skills. Ann has experience supporting people affected by HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life issues, postpartum depression, and prejudice or discrimination.
She also addresses process addictions and compassion fatigue for caregivers. These areas are woven into everyday talk and practical planning during sessions. People who prefer clear, steady guidance tend to find her approach useful.
Ann helps clients set realistic goals and practice small changes between sessions. She encourages follow-through and checks progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Ann uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's experience. This approach means the conversation follows the client's concerns, with the therapist reflecting and clarifying so a person feels heard and understood.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety, phobias, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ann will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversational work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and messaging can support shorter check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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