About Ann
Ann Ghabel is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Iowa with 11 years of clinical experience. She combines practical tools and listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the daily challenges of parenting and family life. Ann pays attention to how symptoms affect day-to-day routines and relationships.
She aims to make each session straightforward and focused on small, usable steps. Before focusing on outpatient work, she spent many years on an inpatient child psychiatry unit and taught psychiatric nursing.
Background and approach
That background informs her calm, clear style and her experience supporting people after trauma or medical and developmental challenges. Her work includes supporting people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping concerns, and anger or self-esteem struggles. Ann uses a mix of client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical skills to help people change unhelpful patterns.
She also incorporates hypnotherapy and mindfulness practices when those approaches suit a person’s goals. Sessions usually focus on practical strategies you can try between meetings. People can expect an accepting, nonjudgmental space to talk through what’s hard.
Ann emphasizes teamwork in planning goals and tracking small changes. Progress is measured in clearer routines, improved coping skills, and fewer days overwhelmed. Her approach is down-to-earth and paced to each person’s needs.
She invites people to take the first step and will guide them through matching and scheduling the next session.
How Ann’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It gives people space to say what matters most while the therapist follows their lead and reflects back what’s helpful. This approach supports issues like family strain, grief, and burnout by keeping sessions grounded in the client’s goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and routines. Online CBT sessions typically include simple exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and sleep problems.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. In short bursts online, DBT tools such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation are taught and practiced to reduce crises and build steadier coping.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you learn what works. That teamwork helps shape a clear, realistic path forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill teaching, phone can be a simpler check-in, and chat or messaging work well for brief questions or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy around work, parenting, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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