About Ann
Ann DePoole greets people with calm and straightforward care. She focuses on building trust first, then helps clients tackle problems one step at a time. Ann writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She has 14 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, and returned to school in her 40s to pursue this work. Ann helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, trauma, and mood disorders.
How Ann works
She also supports those managing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she uses practical, evidence-based approaches to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She draws from cognitive behavioral work to reframe unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical skills to build emotional regulation.
Acceptance and Commitment strategies help people clarify values and take meaningful actions. Ann pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current behavior. She also works with co-occurring conditions and the fallout from trauma and substance use.
Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel useful and doable. People who choose Ann can expect clear goals and practical tools they can use between sessions. She frames progress as steady steps rather than sudden fixes.
Ann practices in Arizona and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Ann lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Ann uses cognitive behavioral work to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another key approach she uses to help people clarify values and commit to small, meaningful actions even when emotions feel difficult. Attachment-focused ideas inform how she looks at repeated relationship patterns and helps clients develop more effective ways of relating to others.Finding the right fit is a shared process. Ann works collaboratively to match approach and goals to each person's needs and preferences, and may draw from different methods as therapy progresses. The choice of approach is revisited together when changes are needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual connection matters. Phone sessions and live chat require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing other responsibilities.
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