About Ann
Ann Burris is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings 35 years of experience across colleges and a psychiatric hospital to her work. Ann focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She uses straightforward, interactive sessions to help people find practical steps forward. Ann meets people where they are and helps them move toward where they want to be. She emphasizes self-care and simple mindfulness skills that can fit into a busy life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be conversational, with attention to developing resilience and coping skills. Her background includes long-term work in higher education in New York and Pennsylvania and clinical experience in a psychiatric hospital. That variety shaped a practical approach to common struggles like panic, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Ann also supports people dealing with career stress, caregiver strain, and changes after loss. She draws from client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are used to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
These methods are applied in ways that aim to feel useful and doable in day-to-day life. Ann values steady learning and often references the idea that life is constant education. She aims to be a steady collaborator while people work through anxiety, grief, or life transitions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities. Online sessions using this approach start with the person's concerns and move at their pace to find workable steps forward.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In video or phone sessions this approach uses clear exercises and homework to spot patterns related to anxiety, panic attacks, or low mood and to practice alternative responses.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management. These brief practices can be practiced between sessions and reviewed over chat or messaging.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ann will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day routine. She aims to adjust techniques as progress unfolds so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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