About Annabel
Dr. Annabel Fields welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. She emphasizes symptoms that interfere with daily life and focuses on practical steps a person can use right away.
Dr. Fields aims to create a warm, respectful space where people feel heard and not judged. She holds a California psychologist license and has practiced clinical psychology for 19 years after earning a doctorate from Widener University in 2008.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in several treatment settings, which brought experience with many concerns such as depression, motivation, communication problems, and addiction. Dr. Fields uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding a person’s perspective. She also draws on mindfulness techniques and solution-focused strategies to build coping skills and small, manageable goals.
Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit for people working through ambivalence about change. People who reach out can expect collaborative planning and clear steps between sessions. Dr.
Fields is accepting of all identities and sexual orientations and works with people on concerns related to gender identity and alternative sexual cultures when relevant. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone move toward the life they want.
How her approaches work online and help with anxiety
Dr. Fields often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going and then practicing specific changes. This approach suits people who want concrete tools for daily worries and unhelpful thinking patterns.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on careful listening and reflecting what a person says so they feel understood. That approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings, build self-acceptance, or work through identity and relationship concerns.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences and then try strategies together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support easier between longer sessions. These options help maintain continuity of care and make it practical to work on anxiety and related concerns from different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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