About Anna
Anna McIver is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, addiction, and trauma. She also supports concerns around intimacy, anger, bipolar mood patterns, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Anna works with adults on issues tied to attachment, body image, codependency, fertility and pregnancy-related challenges, and young adult issues.
Her approach is straightforward and warm. She listens first, then helps people name what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit everyday life. Anna aims to make therapy feel hopeful and understandable rather than technical. Anna draws on client-centered work and attachment-based ideas to build trust and emotional connection.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions. These methods are blended to match each person’s needs and pace. Her style is compassionate and attuned.
She pays attention to feelings and relationship patterns that shape current problems. Treatment often includes skill-building, problem solving, and reflective conversation so clients can try new ways of coping. Anna practices in Maine and brings ten years of clinical experience to her work.
She encourages people to talk honestly about their goals and to take small, doable steps toward them. The focus is on practical change and emotional understanding.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand connection needs, repair relationship patterns, and feel more supported in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift thinking and reduce anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, then suggest techniques to try. Together you can adjust methods over time so the work fits your needs and pace.
Online therapy with Anna uses several ways to connect: video calls for full conversation, phone sessions for simpler check-ins, live chat for shorter exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work or family, choose a format that matches comfort with video, and keep progress moving between longer appointments when helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English