About Anne
Anne McLaren is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. Anne aims to make therapy approachable and straightforward for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions tend to be practical and focused on real-life steps people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Anne helps clients build confidence and clearer communication skills so daily life feels more manageable. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's goals at the center of care. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more realistic choices.
Mindfulness practices are introduced when they fit the client's needs to help reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Anne brings experience with relationship issues, intimacy concerns, codependency, and communication problems. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and mood-related struggles including bipolar symptoms.
Her approach is adaptable to each person's circumstances and priorities. People who want brief, goal-oriented work may find solution-focused techniques helpful with Anne. For couples or relationship-focused work she incorporates Gottman-informed ideas to improve interaction and repair patterns.
She partners with clients to set clear, achievable goals and track progress over time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. The therapist listens closely and helps the client find their own solutions, which works well in conversations over video or phone. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is practical and homework-friendly, so it adapts easily to text-based check-ins and timed video sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences during early sessions and then try methods that match those priorities. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan based on progress and comfort with different techniques.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how therapy fits daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter, focused conversation fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings, share notes, and keep a steady connection without scheduling another video call.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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