About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addiction, and phobias. She uses a calm, practical style that focuses on listening first and then helping people find steps that fit their lives.
Her work includes coaching and support for career and life changes as well as help with sleep, eating, and self-esteem concerns. She has a long background in clinical practice and teaching, with graduate-level training and early roles lecturing and supervising students.
Background and approach
That experience shaped a flexible approach that blends several methods so sessions can be tailored to each person. She aims to help people understand patterns that get in the way and to practice new ways of coping. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration, asking what would help most and working toward those goals together.
Practical skills like coping strategies, communication practice, and structured behavior changes are mixed with deeper work on attachment and personal history when useful. Many clients come for short-term focused work and others choose ongoing support. Anne offers several remote session formats to fit busy schedules.
She explains options upfront and helps people choose what will work best for their needs and routines. Her goal is to help clients make steady progress toward clearer choices and more manageable days. Her approach is straightforward and centered on helping people become their own best advocates through steady, supportive guidance.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape reactions today; it can be useful for relationship strain, abandonment concerns, and attachment issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s goals and experiences, giving space for people to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and supports self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust as needed. Clients often find a mix of approaches works best, and treatment is shaped by what helps you move toward your goals and daily functioning.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work on concerns easier. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, homework checks, or more frequent touchpoints between longer sessions. These options help make consistent progress while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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