About Ann
Ann Newman is a licensed social worker practicing in Colorado. She uses a compassionate, steady approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Ann draws on 13 years of experience to offer practical support for everyday struggles.
She focuses on building skills people can use between sessions. That often means working on self-esteem, communication, and coping strategies. She also helps people dealing with grief, addiction, sleep or eating concerns, and career strain.
Background and approach
Ann emphasizes an individual’s strengths. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She listens for what matters most and then helps identify small, manageable steps forward.
Her work includes attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, attachment issues, and challenges tied to adoption, caregiving, chronic illness, and aging. She also supports clients navigating identity topics such as LGBT matters and kink-aware concerns. Ann integrates several well-known therapeutic approaches into practical work.
She combines acceptance-based ideas, cognitive strategies, and emotion-focused techniques to tailor interventions. The aim is to help people reduce overwhelm, improve daily functioning, and reconnect with what they value. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Ann holds the Colorado LCSW credential and also lists CSW, and she works with clients through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take actions aligned with those values, even when difficult thoughts and feelings come up. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with mood, sleep, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest one or a mix of approaches that fit. Sessions are collaborative, and the plan can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face without travel time. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or an option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to maintain contact between sessions and fit support into a tight schedule. These options help people stay consistent with care and apply new skills in real life situations.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist help with?
What is the general therapy style and approach?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages and international options are available?
What session formats are offered?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English