About Ann
Ann Voorhees is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports issues around parenting, sleep and eating struggles, ADHD, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Her tone is warm and matter-of-fact, aimed at people who want straightforward help and practical steps.
Ann returned to direct clinical work after many years in psychiatric and human services administration.
Background and approach
She earned her graduate degree in 1986 and began her clinical career working with children suspected of sexual abuse. She later treated adult survivors of abuse and adolescents who had offended sexually, and over time her practice broadened to include adults and mature adults coping with anxiety, depression, low self-worth, and emotional or physical fatigue. Her sessions are interactive and respectful.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on the person in front of her. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to fit their goals. Ann uses a mix of approaches to find what helps most.
She draws on client-centered methods to support collaboration, cognitive-behavioral tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and habits, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, motivational interviewing to strengthen resolve, and psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-standing patterns. Her practice emphasizes practical steps, clear goals, and steady support.
She encourages people who are ready for change to take the next step and offers guidance to help them move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and letting the person lead the conversation. It helps people clarify goals, feel heard, and build confidence to make changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety or improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to lower reactivity and increase calm in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so treatment stays practical and relevant.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to match different situations. Video sessions are useful when more face-to-face interaction helps the work. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English