About Annette
Annette Kauffroth helps people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. She supports people facing life changes, parenting stress, addiction struggles, and identity questions within the LGBT community. Annette brings a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Annette trained as a social worker and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW. She left a prior career in engineering to work directly with people.
Background and approach
That background shapes her clear, problem-solving style and her attention to practical tools. In sessions she blends gentle acceptance with action-oriented strategies. Conversations often include noticing values, building small habits, and learning skills to manage intense feelings.
She uses methods from cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches to help people reframe thinking and try new behaviors. Attachment issues and communication problems are common topics in her work. She helps people who struggle with intimacy, trust, or repeating painful patterns to name those patterns and practice different ways of relating.
She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, and isolation. Annette has 14 years of clinical experience and practices from Texas. Her work often includes short-term skills coaching and longer-term exploration of life purpose and meaning.
She aims to make therapy practical and relatable, so people can notice change between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Annette uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live with hard thoughts and feelings. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting attention from symptom control to valued action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to notice unhelpful thinking, test assumptions, and practice different behaviors. CBT is often useful for stress, mood problems, and managing upsetting memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and current challenges, then suggest a mix of methods that fit. Clients and therapist check in about what helps and adjust methods over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and learning new skills together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text sessions are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when shorter, more frequent contact fits a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English