About Anna
Anna Allred welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She focuses on helping clients reduce stress and anxiety, manage mood concerns like bipolar disorder, and build stronger self-esteem. Anna speaks plainly and listens carefully so people can say what matters to them and feel heard.
She holds licenses in Washington and Oregon and brings 10 years of professional experience to her work. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with time spent on real-life tools for coping with change, improving motivation, and handling cravings or compulsive behaviors.
How Anna works
She also supports people facing grief, career strain, chronic illness, and caregiving challenges. Anna uses approaches that match a person’s needs rather than one-size-fits-all methods. That can include client-centered conversations that follow what the person brings, cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, or skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions.
She has additional experience with trauma, adoption and foster care issues, and first responder stress. Sessions aim to be straightforward and respectful. Anna helps people notice patterns, try small experiments between sessions, and practice new responses to difficult situations.
She also offers coaching-style support for life transitions and career questions. People meet Anna for video, phone, chat, or text-based sessions. The work begins by identifying a few clear goals and choosing approaches that fit the person’s daily life and schedule.
Anna lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Anna blends client-centered work with structured skills so therapy fits the person. Client-centered therapy is about listening and following what matters to the client, helping them name concerns and set goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, when emotional regulation and intense reactions get in the way of daily life. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without harmful behaviors. Together these approaches give both understanding and tools to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will help you choose methods based on your needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way. That plan can change as work progresses so it stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a day or to write through thoughts between sessions.
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A practical next step
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