About Ann
Ann Stancil is an LCSW who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens with an open mind. People often seek her when addiction, trauma, or difficulties with intimacy and relationships feel overwhelming.
Ann draws on 17 years of clinical experience in behavioral health settings to guide conversations toward practical steps. She uses client-centered methods to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her clients notice and change thoughts and habits that keep them stuck.
How Ann works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are offered when emotions run high or impulsive behavior becomes a problem. These skills focus on managing intense feelings, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Ann adapts techniques to match each person's needs and goals rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan.
She has worked across the lifespan in Indiana, supporting people with issues such as bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation patterns, and co-occurring substance use concerns. Additional focus areas include attachment and blended family challenges, gender dysphoria, multicultural issues, and hospice and end-of-life counseling.
Ann aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where concerns like guilt, shame, infertility, or life purpose can be talked through. Her approach mixes practical skill building with a steady therapeutic presence to help people move toward clearer goals.
To begin, she asks about what matters most to the individual and tailors sessions to those priorities while using evidence-informed techniques to support progress.
Ann lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How these approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what is said, and helps set goals that matter to the client. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, collaborative experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches people to spot unhelpful thoughts and test them against real life. Sessions include simple exercises and behavior changes that target anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions. These tools help when emotions feel overwhelming or when impulsive behaviors cause problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and preferences to decide which methods to use. That process is collaborative and may shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls let people have full conversations with visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, journaling-style reflection, or moments when typing feels more comfortable. Together these formats offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives.
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A practical next step
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