About Anna
Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of social work experience and six years licensed in California. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress and anxiety, along with depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, suited to people who want clear guidance and steady support.
Anna helps people who are adjusting to chronic illness or caregiving roles. She also supports those dealing with attachment concerns, communication problems, codependency, and the guilt and shame that often follow major loss or relationship change.
Background and approach
Her work covers practical issues like divorce, caregiver stress, and health-related challenges. Her style centers on mindfulness, self-compassion, and body-awareness practices. In sessions she encourages noticing physical and emotional signals, and then uses that awareness to guide coping strategies.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on what can change now. Clients can expect collaborative work. Anna listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals.
She uses short exercises and real-life tools that people can try between sessions to manage anxiety and build resilience. Anna practices from California and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their life.
To get started, a simple matching questionnaire is used to pair needs with scheduling options.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Anna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on present-moment awareness and bodily signals. Mindfulness practices teach noticing thoughts and sensations without judgment, which can reduce the intensity of anxiety and stress. Somatic-focused work helps people identify how emotions show up in the body and learn calming responses for those sensations.Sessions also draw on self-compassion methods that encourage kinder internal dialogue and reduce shame. These approaches are practical and aimed at helping people build routines and small habits that support mood and coping over time. Deciding which techniques to use is a joint process; the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels more comfortable. Together these formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, caregiving schedule, or health-related routine.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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