About Annie
Annie Allen is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with two decades of clinical experience in Michigan. She combines caring presence with clear guidance to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and other concerns. Annie listens first and helps clients set practical goals they can use between sessions.
She has worked across medical and mental health settings and led support groups in community and faith-based settings. That background gives her experience with long-term conditions, end-of-life concerns, and grief work.
Background and approach
Annie also brings familiarity with issues such as OCD, seasonal mood changes, and multicultural stressors. In sessions she uses straightforward, person-focused methods drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Conversations often include skill-building for sleep, emotion regulation, and coping with life changes.
She encourages small, realistic steps people can try between meetings. Annie values a respectful, team-based relationship. She watches for each person’s strengths and works from those strengths to reduce shame and build confidence.
Clients can expect a calm, compassionate listener who offers tools and practical strategies. Her work style blends structured skills practice with space for emotional processing. Whether someone is managing compassion fatigue, relationship strain, or the daily effects of ADHD, Annie aims to make therapy understandable and usable.
She supports people as they test new ways of thinking and acting in real life.
How Annie’s therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps people tolerate difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and obsessive thinking.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Annie will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then recommend which methods to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on how the client is doing and what fits their life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or use written skills practice between appointments. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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