How Ann works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Ann
Ann Newman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and the effects of trauma. She works with adults facing life changes, grief, relationship struggles, and concerns like ADHD, addiction, and bipolar mood challenges. Ann brings 13 years of experience and practices in Colorado as an LCSW and CSW.
She listens first and builds a plan with each person. Sessions focus on practical skills people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Ann emphasizes clearer communication, better coping tools, and ways to reduce reactivity in heated moments. Her style is down-to-earth and client-centered. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify patterns of thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Ann also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships affect current connections. This can help people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment worries, or feeling disconnected from others.
She aims to strengthen self-compassion and rebuild trust in relationships. In sessions people can expect straightforward conversation, skills practice, and collaborative goal-setting. Ann offers video, phone, chat, and text options to fit different needs.
Her approach is respectful and inclusive, intended to help people regain stability and move toward clearer, calmer days.
What Ann works with
Everything Ann lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Ann's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Ann lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying different actions to change how you feel. CBT can be helpful for anger, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ann will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means reviewing what feels helpful, trying strategies in session, and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and skills practice, phone sessions can require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress from different locations.
Questions people ask about Ann
What concerns does Ann address in sessions?
She supports people with stress, anger, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship issues, parenting strains, addictions, ADHD, and related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She takes a down-to-earth, client-centered approach that emphasizes listening, clear communication, and practical skills you can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
Ann has 13 years of clinical experience and works in Colorado as an LCSW and CSW.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is licensed in Colorado and provides services to people in that region.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.