Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Coaching
How Anne works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, and anger. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps to cope better day to day.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels most urgent. Then she and the client set simple goals and track small changes. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to teach skills people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes graduate training and long experience in clinical settings and teaching. She has worked with issues such as trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue. Anne also supports people facing life transitions, career questions, body image concerns, chronic illness, and attachment difficulties.
Therapy blends methods to fit each person. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-focused work helps people understand patterns in relationships.
Narrative and emotionally-focused ideas are drawn on to make sense of personal stories and feelings. Online and phone work are part of her practice. Clients may use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The focus is on creating useful, doable steps so people leave sessions with practical ways to handle anger, stress, or relationship problems. She structures work collaboratively. Goals are decided together and adjusted as progress is made.
The aim is to help people feel more capable and move toward better daily functioning.
What Anne works with
Everything Anne lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Anne's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Coaching
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Anne lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches used online and what they do
Anne draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, anger, and sleep or eating concerns. She also uses attachment-based work to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current reactions and closeness. Emotionally-focused ideas are woven in to help name feelings and improve interactions in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Over the first sessions she adjusts techniques based on how someone responds, so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you read facial expressions and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching between meetings, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain regular progress.
Questions people ask about Anne
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, grief, relationship and parenting issues, addictions, trauma, and related concerns such as self-esteem and career stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm and direct. She focuses on clear goals, simple skills, and practical steps people can use between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience working in clinical and teaching roles with a wide range of presenting issues and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with Michigan and North Carolina LMFT credentials and works from North Carolina.
Which languages are offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.