About Ana
Ana Maria Berryman is a licensed clinical social worker in California who brings 21 years of experience to sessions. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make first steps feel manageable and clear.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different choices.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven in to teach simple grounding skills for overwhelming moments. In sessions she focuses on creating an open space where thoughts and feelings can be voiced without judgment. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at solving daily problems and easing painful emotions.
She also supports people coping with compassion fatigue and caregiver stress. Her work addresses specific concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, commitment worries, communication problems, and the strain following divorce or separation. She also helps with guilt, forgiveness, social anxiety, isolation, and postpartum depression.
Ana Maria values cultural awareness and brings attention to multicultural concerns when relevant. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging options so people can pick what fits their routine. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Ana Maria combines attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns, helping people understand why they react a certain way. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions match changing needs and real-life challenges.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet when it fits your life. Video calls let you see facial cues and have a deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, coping skills between sessions, or when you need quick support during a busy day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish