About Annie
Annie Allen is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with about 20 years of experience in medical and mental health settings. She brings a caring, sensitive, and transparent presence to sessions. Clients find a steady, collaborative partner who listens and helps them sort out what matters most right now.
She aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also supports those coping with life changes, low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life counseling, multicultural concerns, OCD and related obsessions or compulsions, prejudice and discrimination, jealousy, seasonal affective disorder, paranoia, and self-harm issues. In practice she uses a mix of approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports people in understanding and shifting difficult emotional patterns. Annie has run individual, couples, faith-based, and group psychotherapy, and she has led community support groups for people living with Alzheimer’s and related concerns.
She believes clients deserve dignity and the right to make their own choices. The therapist sees the work as a team effort where the client’s experience guides change. Her approach is direct and respectful.
Sessions focus on teaching coping strategies and concrete steps the client can try between meetings. She encourages people to notice progress, adjust goals, and build skills that fit everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life while accepting difficult thoughts or feelings rather than battling them. ACT can help people who feel stuck by shifting attention to what matters and practical action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and replaces them with more helpful habits. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and obsessive thinking because it breaks problems into manageable parts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. It can be especially helpful for intense emotional reactions and for building steady coping tools.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with one approach and adding others as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different communication needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while still accessing licensed professionals and focused therapeutic techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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