About Anna
Anna Owens is a licensed professional psychotherapist who focuses on helping adults and adolescents manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. She brings 11 years of experience and blends practical skills with honest conversation. Her approach aims to help people feel stronger and more able to handle life’s ups and downs.
Clients meet someone who listens and asks clear questions. Sessions often include learning new coping skills and practicing them between meetings.
Background and approach
Anna encourages facing difficult feelings in small steps so change feels manageable rather than overwhelming. Her work draws on several well-known therapy methods to match what each person needs. She helps people identify patterns that cause pain and then builds tools to change those patterns.
That may include techniques for mood, anger, grief, or challenges after trauma and abuse. Anna also supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career or caregiver stress. She pays attention to how relationships and past attachment experiences shape present struggles.
The focus is practical change and greater self-worth, not quick fixes. Clients describe forming a collaborative plan that names goals and steps to reach them. The pace is set by the person seeking help, with clear guidance and accountability.
Anna aims to create space for growth, boundary setting, and rebuilding life after hard losses or toxic relationships.
How Anna’s Approaches Work Online
Anna draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and committing to small, meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult, which helps with anxiety, grief, and relationship decisions. CBT breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change mood and reactions, useful for depression, stress, and panic.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Anna will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress unfolds to keep the work practical and personalized.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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