About Anna
Anna Mazek-Vann is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, and trauma. She also provides executive coaching and support for workplace issues. Her approach focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
She draws on 15 years of clinical experience across multiple states and brings straightforward, respectful guidance to appointments. Sessions aim to be a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
The tone is collaborative and goal-focused. In sessions she breaks concerns into manageable parts. She helps clients build coping skills for panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood shifts.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, communication problems, divorce and separation, and loneliness. For people struggling with money stress, work strain, or seasonal mood changes, she offers clear strategies to reduce pressure and improve daily functioning. She addresses women’s issues and social anxiety with practical tools that fit real life.
Her coaching work centers on improving communication, decision-making, and leadership skills for professionals. Clients leave sessions with concrete next steps and techniques to practice between meetings. Anna is licensed as an LPC and as an LCMHC and practices from Illinois.
She provides care in English and uses a mix of conversation, skill-building, and planning to support long-term change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety, panic attacks, and mood symptoms; sessions teach simple tools and practice exercises to reduce distress and improve daily routines. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care that helps people process difficult experiences at a pace they control and develop safety and stabilization techniques for triggers and flashbacks.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what helps, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on what works in real life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is preferred. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to follow up between sessions. These formats provide flexibility and help therapy fit around work, family, and travel commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, North Carolina
- Languages
- English