Anne Douglas, LMFT
Compassionate therapist helping people tell better stories
Details
| Name | Anne Douglas |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMFT |
| Based in | North Carolina |
| Licensed in | Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 25 |
About Anne
Anne Douglas is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and changes in life. She brings 25 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. People often come for help with sleep, eating, parenting struggles, self-esteem, career shifts, or trauma and abuse concerns.
Her style centers on listening first and then working together to find useful ways forward.
Background and approach
She draws on narrative ideas to help clients tell and reframe their stories. She also uses attachment concepts to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Anne trained at Northwestern University and completed additional graduate work in family therapy and psychoanalysis.
Over her career she has taught, supervised students, and held clinical fellow status within a national professional association for marriage and family therapy. Those experiences inform a thoughtful, experienced bedside manner. In sessions she mixes techniques from client-centered, cognitive behavioral, and emotionally-focused approaches.
That means practical skill-building, attention to emotions, and collaboration about goals. She also offers coaching-style support when people want actionable steps to change day-to-day habits. Online options include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
She works with each client to choose formats and rhythms that fit their life and needs. Her aim is to help people feel heard, build coping skills, and move toward clearer next steps.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Family conflicts among the things Anne works with, alongside the areas below.
- 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 listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Jungian Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Anne among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Anne directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Anne directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Anne’s Approaches Work Online
Anne blends Narrative Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand and change the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships. Narrative Therapy focuses on separating problems from the person so a client can identify unhelpful storylines and try different, more helpful perspectives. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior, which can help with relationship struggles, anxiety, and patterns of avoidance.She takes a collaborative approach to choosing methods. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and daily life, and then suggest approaches that fit. Together you decide whether to focus on changing thoughts and behaviors, revising personal narratives, or on relationship patterns that keep causing pain.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Video calls are useful when visual cues matter; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text can be helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people work on therapy from wherever their daily life takes them.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Anne Douglas address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and listening-focused. She uses narrative work, attachment ideas, client-centered conversation, and practical techniques to help clients make changes.
What kind of experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience, has taught and supervised students, and has served as a clinical fellow in a national marriage and family therapy association.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with Michigan and North Carolina LMFT credentials and practices from North Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote work.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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