About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical work. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and career or life transitions. Her style is direct and collaborative, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She combines conversational listening with structured techniques in session. That means clear goals, skill practice, and time to reflect on patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Sessions can include coaching-style guidance when clients want focused change and psychotherapeutic work when they need deeper processing. Her background includes graduate study at Northwestern University and training at The Family Institute at Northwestern and The Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. She has taught and supervised students and served on faculty at Lake Forest College.
She has long experience in marriage and family therapy and has held a Clinical Fellow role with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Over her career she has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, mood disorders, addictions, eating and sleep problems, identity and intimacy issues, and caregiver or chronic illness stress.
She also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, blended family challenges, and communication or control issues. Anne offers multiple ways to connect - video, phone, live chat, and text messaging - and she and each client set goals together. Her aim is to help people learn tools, speak for themselves, and move toward a steadier life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and trust. In online sessions this work looks at patterns in your close relationships and builds new ways to reach out, set boundaries, or repair connection.Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person seeking help. The therapist offers attentive listening and reflects back what matters to you so you can find your own solutions; it helps with self-esteem, decision making, and feeling understood.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Online CBT often includes clear homework, thought tracking, and short in-session practice that can be done between video or phone meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process can blend approaches over time to match your needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are close to in-person meetings and allow face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or text messaging is useful for frequent check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing helps you think things through. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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