About Ann
Ann Niebuhr offers direct, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or problems with addiction. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Ann holds the LPCC credential, which is listed exactly as provided.
She draws on many years of clinical experience to address depression and trauma. Sessions include straightforward conversation, skill-building, and attention to how relationships and early family experiences shape current struggles.
Background and approach
Ann also pays close attention to symptoms like panic, obsessive thoughts, and compulsive behaviors. Ann has worked with people affected by chronic pain, long-term illness, and dissociative symptoms. She helps clients who are wrestling with body image concerns, attachment questions, and family of origin issues.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase usable coping tools. Her background includes work in addiction treatment and exposure-based approaches for obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Ann’s practice favors evidence-based techniques and clear plans.
She aims to make therapy manageable and to tailor approaches to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and are available through remote formats. People in Minnesota will find her familiar with regional resources and treatment options.
Ann brings eight years of focused counseling practice to her work with adult clients.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom reduction. Exposure-based methods help people facing obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors by gradually and safely facing feared situations or urges to reduce avoidance and anxiety over time. Cognitive interventions address anxious thoughts and depressive patterns by identifying unhelpful thinking, testing those beliefs, and practicing alternative responses to lower distress.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, symptoms, and daily life. If something is not working, adjustments are made so therapy stays useful and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and differing daily needs.
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Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English