About Annie
Annie (Anne) Cummings is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience offering practical, down-to-earth therapy. She works with adults on worries like anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, grief, and career concerns. She also helps people who are navigating relationship or intimacy issues and those coping with long-term health or caregiving stress.
Anne trained as a Master of Social Work at Fordham University in New York City and has worked in diverse clinical settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes time on a dual-diagnoses unit at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and work at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York. She also has extensive experience supporting older adults. Her counseling stance is warm and client-centered.
Sessions are meant to feel like an open, relaxed conversation where the person sets the pace. She prefers to tailor methods to each person instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Anne commonly blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas.
She also uses solution-focused steps and mindfulness practices to build daily skills. Those approaches aim to help people manage mood, regulate emotions, and improve daily routines. Practical tasks and homework are used when helpful, such as tracking patterns, trying small behavior changes, or practicing brief mindfulness exercises.
Anne highlights collaborative goal-setting so progress is clear and measurable. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions for added flexibility.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Anne often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation. Acceptance and commitment therapy is another common strand in her work, focusing on values-based actions and accepting difficult thoughts instead of fighting them, which can help with stress, chronic pain, and life transitions. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to build attention, reduce reactivity, and support emotional regulation.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and daily routines, then try approaches that fit those needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time so the plan stays practical and goal oriented.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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