About Ann
Ann Legierski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy challenges, and issues related to gender and sexual identity. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience in California to support people through grief, career shifts, ADHD concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and caregiving stress.
Ann meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps for daily life. Ann uses a collaborative, client-centered style in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Treatment plans are tailored to an individual’s needs and background rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. The aim is to build skills that make change feel manageable.
Her methods include cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts, dialectical behavior tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, and attachment-informed strategies for improving close relationships. Emotion-focused work helps people name and process difficult feelings when that is needed. Ann combines these approaches with practical education and feedback.
Sessions are intended to be a supportive place to try new ways of coping, practice communication, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. She also helps people navigate life transitions, chronic illness or pain, and complex family dynamics. Ann emphasizes compassion and acceptance while offering concrete tools to move forward.
Ann earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Phoenix. She holds California LCSW license number 87498 and conducts therapy in English.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and skills
Ann blends attachment-informed work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand patterns in relationships and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based approaches look at how early and current relationships shape reactions and communication, which can help with intimacy, abandonment fears, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts that lead to distress and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhealthy habits.She also draws on emotion-focused ideas to help people name and process strong feelings, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to build emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills when emotions feel overwhelming. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, pace, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy in her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred. Live chat or text messaging work well for short updates, brief coaching, or maintaining progress between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility for fitting therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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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
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English