About Ann
Ann Newman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and phobia-related worries. She works with clients on relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction and recovery issues, parenting strains, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT concerns. Ann brings 13 years of experience to each session and practices in Colorado.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions focus on practical skills people can use right away.
Background and approach
Ann listens first, then helps clients set clear, realistic goals. She uses straightforward language so people leave feeling understood and more able to cope. Ann blends several evidence-informed approaches to fit each person's needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward valued life goals. Attachment-based and client-centered methods shape how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns.
These approaches guide conversations about connection, boundaries, and attachment wounds. Clients work to notice old patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and to themselves. Practical tools are emphasized throughout therapy.
That can mean step-by-step plans for sleep, routines for stress, communication practice, or emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Ann aims to make therapy usable outside the session, helping people handle everyday challenges more confidently.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections, helping clients understand and shift patterns in intimacy and communication.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then collaboratively try strategies that fit their situation. That means adapting methods over time if something isn’t working or if priorities change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face when travel or schedules are tight. Phone sessions work well when a quieter setting or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins, coping in the moment, or keeping therapy accessible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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