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Anna Patterson, LMHC
Florida
LMHC in Florida - Anxiety and Grief
See online therapy options- CBT methods
- Attachment work
- Client-centered
About Anna
Anna Patterson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship concerns, career challenges, and trauma. She also helps with issues like ADHD, anger, eating concerns, self-esteem, and midlife questions.
She uses straightforward, practical methods. Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and habits and trying different ways of responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) appears often in her work alongside attachment-focused and client-centered approaches.
Anna describes her style as interactive. She emphasizes respectful listening and building trust so people can talk openly about hard topics. Early sessions typically clarify immediate problems and set concrete goals for change.
She blends approaches to match what each person needs. That may mean learning new behavior strategies, noticing patterns in relationships, or working through grief and loss. She will also use motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas when those fit the goals.
Practical skills and short-term strategies are common in session. Homework and experiments between visits are often used to test what helps in daily life. Over time the focus can broaden to underlying patterns that keep problems repeating.
Anna works in Florida and offers services in English. People who want to begin are asked to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online options button.
How Anna adapts therapeutic approaches for online work
Anna commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions often include focused exercises, simple behavioral experiments, and practice tasks to do between meetings that target anxiety, mood, and stress-related problems.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions, helping people notice and shift repeating interaction styles. Client-Centered Therapy is used to keep the conversation focused on the person's goals, preferences, and lived experience, with the therapist listening and reflecting to clarify what matters most.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That means starting practical, seeing what fits, and changing course when needed.
Session formats should be confirmed before booking because the biography does not list specific formats. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. If audio-only or video options are important to someone, they should verify current session options when setting up the first meeting.
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Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What problems does she commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship concerns, career issues, trauma, ADHD, and related emotional struggles.
How does she use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
CBT is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new responses through practical exercises and between-session tasks.
What is her background and experience?
She has 11 years of clinical experience and works as an LMHC in Florida, plus training in grief-related work.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) licensed in Florida and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are provided to those within the therapist's regional scope.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe, use the crisis numbers.