About Anne
Anne Kaeding offers calm, practical support for people facing loss, low mood, stress, and parenting challenges. She meets each person where they are and helps them take small steps toward clearer thinking and better coping. Anne is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and brings eight years of experience to sessions.
She focuses on common struggles like grief and depression, anxiety and stress, and difficulties with self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also helps people who are managing complex family situations, adoption or foster care concerns, attachment issues, and caregiver strain. Anne will listen first to understand what matters most to each person. In conversations she adapts her approach to fit someone’s goals and daily life.
That can mean practical problem-solving, ways to manage strong emotions, or supporting parents as they navigate blended family dynamics. The work is collaborative and paced to the person's needs. Anne emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction.
She helps people notice patterns that get in the way and tries to replace them with simpler, healthier habits. Sessions are aimed at useful change rather than technical language. People can expect a straightforward, down-to-earth style that focuses on what will help now.
Anne supports decision-making, coping with transitions, and building skills for long-term resilience. She helps clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and more stable days.
Approaches that fit your life, online
Anne uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional coping. One common approach helps people manage strong feelings by teaching small behavior and thought changes that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. This is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.Another useful focus is skills-based support for parenting and family stress. These techniques look at communication patterns and everyday routines, and help people try new ways of responding that ease conflict and reduce chaos in the home.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, life context, and preferences to find an approach that fits. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made along the way as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone can be a lighter option requiring less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English