About Ann
Ann Conrad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She uses straightforward, goal-focused work to help people gain tools and move forward with more confidence.
Ann blends several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes.
How Ann works
She draws on client-centered and attachment-based ideas to build trust and explore how early relationships affect current patterns. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related difficulties. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and first responder concerns.
Ann pays attention to communication problems, codependency, infidelity, and the stress of life changes. Sessions focus on tangible skills and realistic goals. Ann aims to help clients learn coping strategies, improve relationships, and clarify life purpose.
She frames therapy as a time-limited process when that fits the person’s goals, with tools meant to last beyond treatment. People who choose Ann can expect practical, empathetic care that adapts to their situation. She encourages clients to set clear objectives and works collaboratively to reach them.
If someone is ready to make a change, she supports the next steps toward greater resilience and direction.
Ann lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Ann works with
The areas below are the ones Ann selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Ann’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and trust. Online sessions can use that approach to look at patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of relating in day-to-day life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into clear steps and uses practical exercises between sessions.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. That way of working helps people feel heard and leads to clearer goals for change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ann will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. She collaborates with each person to pick methods and adjust them as progress is made.
Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or let someone choose a meeting style that matches their comfort with video. Licensed professionals can use these approaches effectively when sessions are scheduled to match a person’s routine and goals.
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