About Anna
Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of social work experience and six years holding the California LCSW credential. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and major life changes. Her work is grounded in practical skills and steady support rather than labels or quick fixes.
Clients meet a calm, patient clinician who pays attention to both feelings and everyday challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breathing and body-awareness tools, and simple exercises to lower distress in the moment. Anna encourages small steps that fit into busy lives so progress feels doable. Anna has particular experience supporting people living with chronic illness and those adjusting after loss or major life shifts.
She pays attention to how physical health, relationships, and daily routines interact with mental health. That practical view helps people find manageable ways to cope. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She listens, helps clarify what matters most, and offers techniques people can try between sessions. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier emotion, not a quick fix. Sessions aim to build skills for handling strong emotions, repairing strained communication, and easing ongoing worry or grief.
Anna teaches ways to notice body signals and respond to stress more gently. She works in English and practices in California as an LCSW.
How her approaches translate to online care
Anna draws on evidence-based techniques that combine attention to the body with mindful awareness. One approach emphasizes somatic awareness - noticing how stress shows up in the body and using simple breath or movement practices to ease tension. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic pain by offering tools to reduce physical reactivity.She also uses mindfulness and self-compassion practices to help people respond to difficult thoughts and feelings with more kindness. These techniques teach short exercises and habits people can use throughout the day to reduce rumination and improve emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to try methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they adjust techniques over time so the plan fits daily life and changes as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls let the therapist observe body cues and guide breathing or grounding exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework prompts, and tracking progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic tools into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English