Anne Douglas

Anne Douglas is a psychotherapist based in North Carolina with 24 years of clinical experience. She is licensed to practice marriage and family therapy and individual psychotherapy in both Florida and Illinois, and she works with a broad range of concerns including stress and anxiety, relationship and family issues, grief, life coaching, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

She completed undergraduate and graduate training at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, earned additional training at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and studied at The Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. Throughout her training and career she has been mentored by several leading family therapy theorists in the United States. While at Northwestern she received an honorarium to lecture and lead an 11-week psychology course for 300 students in recognition of her counseling expertise. She has also served on the faculty at Lake Forest College, where she provided counseling, teaching, and supervision.

Anne has been a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for over 20 years and has been associated with BetterHelp since 2014. She offers Tele-Medicine psychotherapy, providing virtual visits and ongoing email communication. This format is intended to give clients greater access through live sessions and unlimited email, which she notes can be more helpful, convenient, and safe than traditional weekly or bi-weekly office visits, and can also reduce cost.

Her clinical practice encompasses individual, couple, and family therapy. She treats presentations related to life transitions, relationship and marital counseling, child and adolescent concerns, PTSD and trauma resolution, anxiety and stress disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, grief and loss, personality disorders, military and veteran issues, career challenges, weight loss and maintenance, family-of-origin healing, and personal growth and self-awareness. She also provides life coaching and is licensed to advise clients on parenting-related matters. Treatment goals are developed collaboratively with each person, tailored to their needs, and she emphasizes helping people become their own best advocates.

Anne is noted for prompt responses to BetterHelp subscribers assigned to her and is available for daily work with clients who request that level of contact. Her objectives include helping clients function effectively in their current environments and supporting them in moving to the next stage of their lives.

For clients coping with ended relationships, she uses a survival-skills system she developed that focuses on THE WHY, THE HOPE, THE WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, and THE LETTING GO — a method she reports has helped hundreds of clients. Her therapeutic approach integrates psychodynamic, family-of-origin, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, solution-focused, trauma-focused, and Gottman methods, among others, and she aims to establish a compassion-focused alliance with those she sees.

Anne offers live camera sessions, live phone sessions, and email chat sessions, along with ongoing email communication, allowing clients to choose the format that best fits their needs. She believes healing begins when a person feels heard and looks forward to working with clients as their counselor.