About Anne
Anne Flaherty is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps you can use day to day and listens without judgment. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
Anne draws on more than two decades of experience to shape conversations that fit each person. She uses clear, evidence-based methods to address depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and coping with illness or caregiving demands.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors between meetings. Work with Anne typically includes goal-focused planning and mindfulness practices to calm the mind. She also uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical strategies to help with intense emotions and stress.
Solution-focused techniques steer conversations toward what works in everyday life. People come to Anne for help with body image, control issues, midlife transitions, and finding meaning after loss. She also supports those dealing with chronic pain, aging concerns, and end-of-life caregiving stress.
Her approach balances practical skills and compassionate listening. Sessions are tailored to the person’s pace and priorities. Anne encourages small experiments and regular check-ins to track progress.
She works in English from her New York practice and draws on her LMHC credential in clinical conversations.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Anne combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness practices to help people manage worry and stress. Client-centered work means conversations are led by your needs and goals, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters to you. Cognitive behavioral methods involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness practices teach brief exercises to calm the mind and strengthen present-moment focus, which can help with racing thoughts and emotional reactivity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust as needed. Together you decide whether to focus on skills training, emotional regulation, short-term problem solving, or a blend of techniques that feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, follow-up tasks, or when writing out feelings helps you process. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while adapting to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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