About Anna
Anna Shinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama with twelve years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, relationship strain, and challenges like parenting or grief. She aims to build a calm, open space where someone can talk without judgment and feel heard.
She offers practical ways to handle anger, boost self-esteem, and manage symptoms of bipolar disorder and ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward goal-setting and coping skills people can use between meetings. The work is collaborative - clients set priorities and Anna helps map steps toward those goals. Her background includes long-term clinical experience treating trauma and abuse and supporting people through major life changes.
She has worked with issues tied to grief, intimate relationships, and LGBT concerns, and understands how co-occurring problems can complicate recovery. That experience informs how she tailors each session. People meet her expecting direct communication and actionable strategies.
She helps with communication problems, impulsivity, and caregiver stress as well as less common concerns like hoarding or disaster-related reactions. Sessions focus on what a person needs now and what can change over time. Anna emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She partners with each person to develop skills, improve coping, and increase confidence. Her approach is steady, practical, and grounded in real-world solutions rather than jargon.
Evidence-based strategies delivered online
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common approach focuses on building practical coping skills for anxiety and anger - learning short exercises and behavior changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people process difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable while learning grounding and stabilization skills.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about current problems, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions are adjusted over time if something isn’t working, so the plan evolves with progress and feedback.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session when body language matters, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, chat is good for brief exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English