Dr. Ann LPC: Your Partner in Mental Health

I help adolescents who experience:

• School-related anxiety, perfectionism, overwhelm, or emotional shutdowns
• Stress around identity, relationships, or expectations
• Difficulty regulating mood

Therapy for teens focuses on:

• Strengthening emotional resilience
• Skill building for stress and attention
• Improving communication and coping
• Empowering teens to understand their experience

Parents are welcome to be involved as appropriate

 Transitions can stir anxiety, uncertainty, and stress.

I support clients through changes:

• Graduation or career shifts 
• New relationships or endings
• Family transitions or identity evolution
• Becoming a parent, recovering from a loss

Therapy for individuals experiencing transitions focuses on:

• Processing and integrating the past
• Navigating the present
• Understanding the importance of a flexible mindset
• Goal setting and building clarity for what’s next

 Anxiety is not a flaw, it’s a stress response:

Anxiety management focuses on understanding how your mind-body respond to pressure & how to calm that response.

In therapy, we may work on:

• Recognizing how anxiety shows up in your body and thoughts
• Understanding patterns that keep anxiety active
• Learning regulation skills to reduce overwhelm
• Developing coping strategies that are sustainable
• Building confidence in your ability to manage stress
   

This approach helps clients feel calmer, more grounded, and better equipped to handle daily challenges.

Clients come to therapy feeling:

• Burned out despite doing “all the right things”
• Pulled between responsibilities and self-nurture
• Guilty for needing rest or boundaries
• Unsure how to set aside time for self-care

Together we focus on:

• Recognizing what your system really needs
• Building boundaries that protect, not restrict
• Finding rhythms that sustain your energy 
• Prioritizing self-care without shame
   

This work is grounded in both awareness and action and informed by the workbook I wrote on sustainable self-care.