About Ann
Ann Sumpter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in West Virginia. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are facing career challenges, body image concerns, and changes that feel overwhelming. She uses a straightforward, person-focused style that makes it easier to talk about hard things.
Sessions are geared toward making space for feelings and naming what is most upsetting. Ann aims to help people build coping steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on mindfulness to build calm moments. She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, practical changes that add up. Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about next steps.
Ann has seven years of professional experience working with people on a range of concerns. That background includes helping clients with depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue as well as relationship and family stressors experienced by individuals. Clients can expect short-term goals or longer work depending on needs.
Ann supports exploration of identity and life transitions without judgment. She aims to partner with each person to find realistic ways to reduce distress and strengthen coping skills.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment; online sessions provide a space to talk through feelings and priorities at your pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking that increase anxiety and then tests small behavioral changes to reduce distress; it translates well to video and phone sessions where homework and thought tracking can be reviewed together.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying strategies, adjusting them, and deciding together what helps most over time.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins or shorter sessions, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping progress steady.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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