About Ann
Ann Huyghe is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She works with adults dealing with mood swings, trauma, anger, relationship concerns, and issues around self-esteem and eating. Ann aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Ann uses clear, conversational exchanges to figure out what matters to each person. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from client-centered methods to shape sessions around the person's pace and values.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy also appears in her work to help people take purposeful action even when difficult feelings are present. With 14 years of experience, Ann blends practical strategies and gentle inquiry. Sessions typically focus on immediate coping skills, problem-solving, and small steps toward longer term goals.
She pays close attention to how past experiences, attachment patterns, and shame can affect daily life and relationships. People who work with Ann often address concerns such as ADHD symptoms, bipolar mood shifts, obsessive thoughts, phobias, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those adjusting to parenting challenges, career changes, and intimacy-related struggles.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s situation rather than following a fixed template. Ann offers sessions in English and uses a mix of talk, guided exercises, and motivational questioning to help clients move forward. She believes therapy should feel collaborative and practical, with goals set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ann uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, and OCD-type symptoms.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's experience and choices. That approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to clarify values and emotions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy appears in work with clients who want to act on what matters despite difficult feelings. ACT emphasizes values-based action and simple exercises to build willingness rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable thought.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what fits the person's needs and preferences. Treatment is collaborative and paced to what the client can manage.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text are useful for brief check-ins and homework support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue progress between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English