About Ann
Ann Kite is a licensed clinical social worker who guides people through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She works with those facing trauma, LGBT-related questions, addiction, and struggles with intimacy. Ann writes clear, respectful plans and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She draws on nearly three decades of experience as a California LCSW. That background has included a wide range of concerns from mood disorders like depression and bipolar to attention and obsessive-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating sexuality, kink and alternative sex culture, and non-traditional relationship styles. In sessions she uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. She mixes client-centered listening with cognitive ideas to help shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Motivational approaches are used when people need extra support to make changes and stick with them. Ann aims to make the work practical. Expect collaborative goal-setting, small experiments to try between sessions, and attention to daily routines such as sleep and eating.
She pays close attention to cultural and identity concerns when they affect wellbeing. Her practice includes coping with life changes, career stress, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, and recovery after disaster. People also come for help with self-harm urges, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Ann speaks English and accepts international clients for online care. If you want a steady, experienced clinician who focuses on usable steps and respectful listening, she can be a resource as you work toward change.
How Ann's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist reflects what matters to you and helps you set goals based on your values and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and patterns like obsessive thinking. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change by helping them find internal reasons to move forward and plan small, achievable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ann will discuss these methods with you and decide together which fits best for your goals and comfort. She adapts techniques to your pace and checks in about what is helping and what needs adjusting so the plan stays collaborative.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for rich face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text are useful for brief check-ins or when typing helps you express yourself. These options allow therapy to fit around work, family, and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English