About Ann
Ann Kite is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate life changes. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where clients can speak honestly and feel heard.
She works with people dealing with trauma and abuse and those facing LGBT-related concerns. Ann also supports people with intimacy-related issues, addictions, grief, sleep and eating problems, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Her experience includes attention to ADHD, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, and complex relationship patterns including non-monogamy and kink communities. Ann uses straightforward conversation and practical steps to help people move forward. She shapes each session around the person in front of her and adapts goals as needs change.
Expect sessions that balance listening with exercises and tools you can use between meetings. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize your perspective. She also integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to support change.
These methods are chosen to match your goals rather than forced as a single plan. Ann practices in California as an LCSW and offers services in English. She aims to help people make steady progress at a pace that feels manageable.
If you're looking for steady support for anxiety, relationship concerns, or recovery from trauma, she offers an experienced, compassionate option.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ann uses client-centered therapy to put the person's experience first. This approach focuses on understanding your perspective and building a trusting relationship so you can explore concerns at your own pace.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and develop different behaviors for issues like anxiety, obsessions, and low mood.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Ann will work with you to shape which methods make sense for your goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as you try different techniques together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied needs. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation; phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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