About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of practice. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family challenges, addictions, trauma, mood concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She keeps sessions practical and focused. Conversations often start with what is most urgent and move toward steps a person can try between meetings.
Anne combines listening with concrete tools for sleep, eating, anger, and coping with life changes so clients have something to use right away. Her background includes graduate training and faculty roles that involved teaching and supervising students.
She has worked in clinical roles across many settings and has a long history of mentoring and professional involvement in marriage and family therapy. That experience informs how she organizes treatment and supports parents as they navigate parenting stress and family conflict.
Anne draws on several complementary approaches in her work. She uses attachment ideas to name relationship patterns, client-centered listening to follow what matters most, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also uses emotionally-focused strategies to shift how people connect in relationships. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Anne encourages collaboration on goals and offers coaching-style suggestions when requested. She aims to help people feel heard and to leave each session with a next step they can try.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people understand and change those patterns to feel more supported in close relationships. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the client, creating space to name goals and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change behavior.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then recommend approaches to try. That plan is adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the client wants to prioritize.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when a lower-bandwidth option is better. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching possible between sessions. These options make it easier to get support while balancing work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English