About Anna
Anna Mazek-Vann is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers steady support for issues like addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, and workplace strain. Her approach aims to make the first step feel more manageable for people seeking change.
Anna draws on 15 years of experience in clinical and coaching settings. She encourages open conversation and aims to create a space where clients can speak honestly without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings as well as on the topics they bring to the room. Her background includes work across multiple states and a blend of therapeutic and coaching experience. That mix lets her move between skill-building and deeper emotional work depending on what a client needs.
She also supports people facing specific concerns such as panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, mood shifts, and seasonal mood changes. In meetings she often helps with communication problems, feelings of isolation, and the emotional fallout from separation or divorce. Financial stress and challenges around self-worth and women’s issues are also common topics she addresses.
The work is organized around clear goals and small, doable changes. People can expect straightforward conversation and practical suggestions. Anna uses her clinical training to guide sessions while keeping the tone collaborative.
She helps clients set priorities and track progress over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build life skills. One common approach focuses on learning concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach emphasizes behavioral and emotional strategies for mood and obsessive thoughts, using routine changes and targeted exercises to lower distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review current concerns, goals, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they try methods, track progress, and adjust the plan so work fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more convenient. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visible cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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