About Anna
Anna Allred is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings ten years of clinical work in Washington and Oregon to sessions and aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and manageable. She keeps sessions simple and direct.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and what changes the person wants to make. She encourages people to name their concerns and to try small, practical steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered work with structured techniques. That means she listens closely and helps people set goals, while offering tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when useful. EMDR and hypnotherapy may also be part of the plan for trauma or stuck memories.
Anna draws on experience with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, caregiving strain, ADHD, and challenges tied to medical illness or aging. She also supports people dealing with family of origin issues, communication struggles, or the stress that comes with first responder roles. Sessions use language that is clear and practical.
People who want help with motivation, confidence, parenting strain, career decisions, or coping after loss will find a steady, nonjudgmental partner in therapy. The focus is on building skills and making changes that fit everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. Online sessions give space for those conversations and let the therapist follow the person's lead while helping set clear goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it works well online because homework, worksheets, and skill practice can be shared between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication; those skills are taught step-by-step and can be reinforced through brief messages or live chat between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, past experiences, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Progress is reviewed regularly and the plan is adjusted as needed so the work fits the person's needs and rhythms.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to get short updates, practice skills in the moment, or have brief coaching between longer sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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