About Ann
Ann Gould is an Alabama-based licensed professional counselor with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or low mood. She works with individuals aged 13 to 65 and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and hopeful.
Ann focuses on common life struggles like trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She listens for the strengths a person already has and uses those as the starting point for change.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with clear steps to try between meetings. Her background includes a decade-plus of working with people facing complex situations such as caregiver strain, coping after disasters, and challenges connected to illness or separation. She also addresses communication problems, codependency, control issues, and concerns that arise in blended family situations.
First responder stress and fatherhood issues are among the practical topics she has helped people navigate. Ann describes the client as the expert in their own story. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the therapist and client work together to identify small, realistic goals.
That approach helps keep progress steady and understandable. Many clients start feeling relief when they get a clearer plan and a few new coping tools. Ann encourages realistic pacing and small steps so changes feel sustainable rather than overwhelming.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and structured problem solving. This helps when worry or overwhelm get in the way of daily life. Another approach focuses on working through trauma and abuse by pacing the work and strengthening safety and stabilization techniques before addressing painful memories. That method aims to reduce intense reactions and increase a sense of control.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively and can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or camera use is unwanted, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options help fit therapy around school, work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English