- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns parents often face, including stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship strain, grief, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with addiction, trauma, mood conditions, and self-esteem or intimacy issues.
Her approach is practical and conversational. Sessions aim to help people name patterns, try small changes, and build skills they can use at home.
Background and approach
She combines listening with clear guidance so parents can manage conflicts, sleeping or eating struggles, and everyday stressors. Anne trained at Northwestern University and the Family Institute at Northwestern University, and studied at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. She has taught and supervised students at the college level and has long experience in clinical settings.
Her background includes work with a broad range of concerns from PTSD and bipolar disorder to caregiver stress and chronic illness. Therapy draws on attachment-based, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral ideas, along with emotionally-focused and Jungian perspectives when useful. Anne adapts methods to the person and the issue rather than following one fixed plan.
She emphasizes collaboration so goals are shaped together. Online and phone sessions are part of her practice, along with live chat and text options. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the platform matching and booking process.
What Anne works with
Everything Anne lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Anne helps people with.
- 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.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversations to help people notice emotional triggers, reconnect with what they need, and change how they relate in close relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings; it uses practical exercises and small experiments that translate well to video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to a single method up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or written reflections. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, childcare, or other routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
Questions people ask about Anne
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting difficulties, grief, addictions, trauma, mood concerns, and related issues such as self-esteem and communication problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is conversational and practical, focusing on listening, identifying patterns, and trying manageable changes that fit daily life.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 25 years of clinical experience, has taught and supervised at the college level, and has worked across many problem areas including trauma resolution 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 practices from North Carolina.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered online?
Sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How does cost and billing work?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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