About Ann
Ann DePoole is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks plainly, listens carefully, and aims to build trust so clients can speak openly about what feels hard. Ann draws on 14 years of professional experience and a straightforward, compassionate style.
She returned to school in her 40s to pursue social work and has since worked with mood disorders, trauma, and substance-related concerns.
Background and approach
Ann uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also brings in acceptance-based methods to help people live in line with what matters to them. In sessions she emphasizes safety, steady progress, and skills that can be practiced between meetings.
She uses emotion-focused and attachment-informed ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships and close connections. For those struggling with overwhelming feelings, she can introduce techniques from dialectical behavior approaches to manage distress. Ann offers multiple ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which can fit different schedules and needs.
She works from Arizona and conducts therapy in English. International clients are not accepted. Her approach is collaborative: she helps people set goals, teaches skills, and adjusts methods to match each person’s situation.
Ann aims to support steady, practical changes so people feel more able to face daily life and long-term challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ann commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings while focusing on values-based action. Dialectical behavior therapy is another option she uses to teach concrete distress-tolerance and emotion-regulation skills for intense feelings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to prioritize and when to try different strategies.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls can be lower bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people send notes between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for choosing how to communicate during care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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