About Annemarie
Annemarie Halbert is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with more than 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps that help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addictions, and other common struggles. Her work centers on setting realistic goals and making day-to-day life more manageable.
She begins by listening to each person's story and current concerns. From there she and the client set clear, achievable targets.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on what makes life easier in the short term and steadier over time. Annemarie draws from client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in what the person needs. She also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and patterns.
Mindfulness ideas are woven in to help manage strong emotions and increase present-moment awareness. Psychodynamic perspectives are applied when useful to look at repeating patterns and how past experiences shape current reactions. Motivational interviewing helps when change feels difficult, especially around addictions or ambivalence about next steps.
Together these approaches give a mix of problem-solving tools and deeper self-understanding. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She works with people who want concrete strategies to cope with life changes, relationships, mood concerns, and performance or caregiving stress.
Approach-focused care through online counseling
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience first, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what the person says matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and guides goal setting for practical change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active. It uses exercises and small experiments to shift thinking patterns and to develop coping skills for panic, mood problems, and everyday worries.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These techniques are useful for managing strong emotions, grief, and symptoms of anxiety.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify goals, tries methods that fit the person's needs, and adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or notes between sessions, and the variety makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options increase flexibility and help people keep continuity of care when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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