About Annamarie
Annamarie Compton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and depression. She commonly supports those coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, and deep feelings of guilt or shame. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person.
She brings ten years of experience to her work and blends practical skills with attention to personal values. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings, like breathing or grounding techniques for panic and small behavior changes to reduce avoidance.
Background and approach
She also makes room for how faith and personal beliefs matter to each person, if that is important to them. Her practice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to the client’s goals. She explains options, tries approaches collaboratively, and adjusts the plan if something isn’t working.
The emphasis is on building coping tools and improving day-to-day functioning. Annamarie aims to create a calm and respectful space where people can talk through painful experiences. She uses trauma-informed awareness to avoid retraumatizing and to help people feel steadier over time.
People who reach out will complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Appointments can be held in several online formats, and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of the techniques used focus on clear, practical tools people can try right away. Cognitive-style approaches help by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce social anxiety and phobic thinking.Exposure-based methods are used in small, gradual steps to address panic and avoidance. These steps are paced to match what a person can tolerate and aim to reduce fear through repeated, manageable practice.
Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques that fit the person's goals and values, and change course if something does not suit the client. This collaborative process helps find what feels most useful in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is valuable for face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat lets people check in quickly or use shorter sessions during a break. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progress moving even when life is busy.
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What this counselor works with
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English