About Annette
Dr. Annette Sauselen brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work in Ohio. She holds an LPCC and combines talk therapy with expressive approaches when helpful.
She focuses on practical steps that help people cope and move forward. Her background includes long-term work with depression, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, grief, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, blended family challenges, and caregiver burnout.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with life transitions, work pressures, anger, or questions about purpose. In sessions she uses straightforward, person-centered listening alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thinking patterns and try new responses. When deeper history matters, she draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how earlier relationships shape current struggles.
Trauma-focused methods are used to help people process painful events at a pace that feels tolerable. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, with gentle challenges when a new perspective will help. Expressive therapy is available for people who prefer art-based ways to sort feelings rather than only talking.
The aim is to find concrete strategies and small shifts that make daily life easier. Dr. Sauselen works with practical goals such as improving communication, managing mood swings, reducing compulsive behaviors, and rebuilding after loss.
She speaks English and offers sessions to people located in Ohio.
Approach and online care that fit your needs
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It helps when someone needs a safe, accepting space to tell their story and make choices about change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical ways to test and change them, which can be useful for depression, anxiety, and anger. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the effects of painful events by helping people process memories and learn coping skills at a pace that feels manageable.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts methods over time and involves the client in deciding when to try different techniques or expressive options like art-based work.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, to use shorter contacts for quick support, or to choose a format that feels most comfortable for the person seeking help.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English