About Anna
Anna McIver is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, steady support for people facing mood changes, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
Anna uses a client-centered approach that lets a person lead what matters most to them. She blends practical cognitive behavioral methods with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps that build coping skills over time. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how they show up in relationships and intimacy. This helps when people are dealing with codependency, commitment worries, or trouble trusting others.
Anna also supports people working through fertility-related stress, postpartum mood concerns, and challenges tied to pregnancy and childbirth. Her work includes helping people with addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, and compassion fatigue. She offers concrete tools for social anxiety, body image concerns, and young adult issues.
In sessions she balances emotional attunement with practical problem solving so clients leave with both understanding and next steps. Anna sees clients from Maine and conducts sessions in English. She aims to create a hopeful, nonjudgmental space where someone can name a struggle and start to change it.
The focus is on collaboration, skill-building, and steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can look at patterns in close relationships and help someone learn different ways to connect and regulate strong emotions.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection while the person leads the focus of each session, which works well over video or phone when someone wants to talk through what matters most.
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises. In online work this often includes brief between-session tasks, thought records, and skill practice to reduce anxiety or mood symptoms.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps most. This is a shared process that values the client’s preferences and pace.
Online formats offer practical benefits for scheduling and consistency. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be less demanding when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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