About Ann
Ann Morris is a Florida-licensed counselor with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, trauma, and LGBT-related issues. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Ann aims to understand what matters to the client and build practical ways forward together.
She focuses on what a person needs right now and tailors a plan to those goals. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to real-life challenges like communication problems, codependency, or caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Ann helps people develop coping skills and clearer routines that fit their daily life. Her work also covers relationship-related challenges such as commitment worries, blended family strain, and divorce or separation adjustments. She supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment issues, and body image struggles.
Ann brings long experience working with traumatic experiences and domestic violence recovery. For people facing aging or geriatric concerns, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, or the stresses that follow a natural or human-caused disaster, she offers steady guidance and practical coping strategies. Her approach is adaptable to each person’s background and needs.
Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions and helps clients set small, achievable steps. She works with English-speaking adults in Florida and focuses on building skills that last beyond therapy.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is short-term skill building that teaches concrete coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and cravings. These techniques help people develop routines, breathing or grounding tools, and step-by-step plans for difficult moments.Another approach focuses on processing traumatic experiences safely and pacing healing work so it fits current needs. This method helps people reduce distress from past events and improve day-to-day functioning without getting overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility with multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when convenient, while phone sessions can work when a lower bandwidth option fits better. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and to keep consistent progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English