About Annie
Annie (Anne) Cummings is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience offering practical, steady support. She works in Florida and helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, grief, and other life challenges. Her style is calm and approachable, aiming to make difficult conversations easier to start.
Anne trained as a Master of Social Work at Fordham University in New York City and has clinical experience in hospital and correctional settings.
Background and approach
She has worked on a dual diagnosis unit at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Those roles shaped her skills with complex cases and co-occurring issues. In sessions she uses a client-centered stance that emphasizes listening first.
She combines that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns and clarify values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices are also part of her toolbox when they fit a person's needs. Anne often helps people with relationships, parenting stress, sleep problems, trauma, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image concerns, and life changes such as divorce or aging. Her breadth of experience includes work with people facing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and substance use concerns. Her aim is to create a relaxed space where a person can talk things through, try new skills, and set realistic steps forward.
She encourages collaboration on goals and adapts her approach to match each person's situation and pace.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Anne uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside client-centered listening to help people manage symptoms and build meaningful habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes recognizing difficult emotions, choosing what matters most, and taking small committed steps toward those values.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as needed. This collaborative process aims to match practical tools to the situation rather than sticking to a single technique.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity when travel or schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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