About Ann
Ann Burris is a licensed counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 35 years of experience. She has worked in colleges and a psychiatric hospital and brings that background into her counseling work. Ann focuses on helping people get through hard moments and build on their own strengths.
She aims for practical, steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her style is interactive and straightforward. Sessions are a place to talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, sleeping problems, anger, and issues related to gender and sexual identity. Ann emphasizes self-care and simple mindfulness practices that people can use between sessions. Ann uses approaches that encourage the client to lead the change while she offers tools and perspective.
She helps people spot patterns, test small changes, and practice new ways of coping. Work often includes setting realistic steps, trying out different strategies, and checking what actually helps in daily life. People who prefer a direct, compassionate guide tend to do well with her.
She meets people where they are and helps them move toward clearer goals. Practical skills, steady support, and attention to everyday routines are common parts of her work. Outside of therapy, Ann draws inspiration from lifelong learning and values resilience.
Her aim is to help people find steady ways to manage life's challenges and grow from difficult experiences.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. It involves listening closely and helping people find their own solutions, which is useful for relationship concerns, grief, and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It uses simple exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills and short practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management. These techniques are easy to practice between sessions and can help with anger, panic, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help identify which methods match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about pace and techniques are made collaboratively, and the plan can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for sessions that resemble in-person meetings. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing support between fuller sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English