About Ana
Ana Stevenson is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on Client-Centered Therapy to guide people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. Ana aims to create space where people can talk about what matters and find steps that fit their life.
She has nine years of clinical experience and has worked with people facing addictions, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career issues, and anger.
Background and approach
Her work also covers adoption and foster care, aging and caregiver stress, attachment and communication problems, immigration-related concerns, and isolation or loneliness. Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and needs. Her approach blends client-centered listening with methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness.
This mix helps people learn coping skills, change unhelpful thinking, regulate intense emotions, and address traumatic memories when appropriate. Ana offers a plain, steady style in sessions. She helps people notice how body sensations, thoughts, and actions interact.
From there she and the person plan small, doable steps to ease distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Therapy with her is available in multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. People who want to begin can follow the site’s process to match with her and schedule sessions according to availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Ana uses Client-Centered Therapy to ground work in each person’s own goals and experience. This approach focuses on listening, building trust, and following what the person says matters most. It helps when someone needs a safe space to sort through feelings and decide on next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and to practice different ways of thinking and behaving. It is practical and skills-focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and daily problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that are useful for managing intense feelings and impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions may blend listening with skill teaching, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused work when appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English, Spanish