About Anne
Anne San Juan is a California-based marriage and family therapist who takes a straightforward, matter-of-fact approach. She aims to help people understand patterns that get in the way of connection to themselves and others.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps. People often come for help with stress, anxiety, relationship strains, or life transitions.
Her background includes working across a wide range of concerns such as depression, bipolar mood issues, addiction, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing family-of-origin problems, parenting stress, communication difficulties, and questions about life purpose.
Anne uses clear talk and collaborative problem solving to make progress on day-to-day challenges. Anne draws on client-centered principles to center each person’s needs.
She pairs that with motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, achievable goals and track progress between sessions.
Anne holds a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT. She has three years of experience listed in this profile and practices in California.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People looking for coaching-style support or help with addictions, ADHD, anger, intimacy, or multicultural concerns may find her practical approach useful.
To begin, users follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling a first session.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Anne uses client-centered therapy to make sessions about the person's own perspective. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting back what matters, and helping clients feel heard so they can identify their priorities.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find personal reasons to change. That method works well for issues like addiction, lifestyle shifts, or motivation around ADHD and mood management by exploring ambivalence and building commitment.
Finding the right approach happens together. Anne will collaborate to pick techniques that match a person’s goals and preferences and will adjust those methods as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions offer a simpler connection with less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking.
These options make scheduling more flexible and help fit therapy into busy days, caregiving routines, work breaks, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English