Anne Douglas

Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, career concerns, addictions, and many other life challenges. She offers a direct, compassionate approach aimed at practical change and clearer thinking.

She uses a mix of methods in sessions so people can find what works for them. Anne draws on attachment-based ideas to examine how early relationships affect current ones. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each person. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.

Her background includes graduate work at Northwestern University and training at The Family Institute at Northwestern and The Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. She has taught college courses and supervised students in counseling programs. Anne has served as a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for over two decades.

In practice, she blends psychodynamic, systemic, and trauma-focused ways of working with solution-focused and behavioral tools. Sessions aim to be collaborative - the therapist and client set goals and measure progress together. Anne also offers coaching for people who want focused help with choices and next steps.

She provides live camera sessions, live phone sessions, and email chat sessions, and uses ongoing email to support clients between meetings. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability.

How Anne’s Approaches Work Online

Attachment-based work focuses on the ways early relationships shape how people connect today; online sessions use conversations to identify those patterns and practice different ways of relating. Client-centered therapy centers on being heard and accepted so clients can discover their own solutions and goals through guided conversation. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative decision, and methods can be adjusted over time as needs change.

Anne lists live camera sessions, live phone sessions, and email chat sessions as options, but readers should confirm which formats are currently offered when booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people connect without commuting. It also supports regular communication between sessions through email so progress can continue between meetings.