About Ann
Ann DePoole focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what a person needs right now. Ann aims to build trust so people feel safe to talk about painful or confusing issues.
She has 14 years of experience and returned to school later in life to follow a long-held goal of helping others. Ann holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and works from that perspective.
Background and approach
Her background covers mood disorders, addiction, trauma, grief, and co-occurring concerns. In sessions she mixes practical strategies with attention to what matters most to the client. People can expect clear tools for coping, exercises to change unhelpful thoughts, and skills for managing intense emotions.
She also works with issues around identity, relationships, parenting, caregiving, and body image. Ann draws from several well-known approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. She adapts methods to each person rather than using a single fixed plan.
Her practice offers conversations by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options are used to fit different schedules and communication styles. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled from there.
How Ann’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete exercises to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and build more effective behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, helping people improve communication and feel more supported in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ann collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, homework review, and quick coping reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent progress without requiring in-person visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English