Anne Douglas, LMFT

Anne Douglas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate relationship challenges, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and life transitions. A graduate of Northwestern University and The Family Institute at Northwestern, she also trained at The Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago and received personal mentorship from leading family therapy theorists in the United States. Her training and teaching background includes a faculty role at Lake Forest College and an honorarium appointment to lecture a large undergraduate psychology course at Northwestern.

As a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for more than 20 years, Anne blends a range of evidence-informed methods to match each person or family she sees. Her work integrates psychodynamic and family-of-origin perspectives with humanistic, behavioral, cognitive approaches including CBT, systemic and solution-focused work, trauma-focused strategies, Gottman-informed interventions, and Jungian ideas. She also offers life coaching and parenting guidance when clients request practical skills alongside therapeutic exploration.

Anne offers telemedicine psychotherapy to increase access through live video, phone sessions, live chat, and continuous email communication. She is known for prompt responses and availability for more frequent contact when desired. For clients coping with ended relationships she uses a structured approach addressing why the relationship ended, what hope remains, what might have been, and how to let go - a system that has helped hundreds of clients move forward.

How Anne's Therapeutic Approaches Translate to Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape current patterns of connection. In practical terms this approach helps clients understand closeness and separation issues, repair attachment ruptures, and build more secure ways of relating in close relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, mood concerns, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on the emotional experiences within relationships and helps partners and individuals access, express, and reorganize key emotional responses. It is especially relevant for couples work and for people who want stronger emotional connection and regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Anne collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences and then tailors interventions from these approaches to fit the person or relationship. That collaborative process helps determine what feels most helpful and effective.

Online therapy with Anne uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and receive support from home or another convenient location while working with a licensed professional.