Dr. Ann Bachmann
Calm practical support for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ann
Dr. Ann Bachmann is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice. She is licensed as an LCSW in Illinois and Missouri and works from Missouri.
Her experience spans many common concerns that parents worry about, such as stress, anxiety, sleep problems, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. She uses straightforward methods to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. Sessions tend to be warm and non-judgmental, with a focus on practical steps.
Background and approach
Ann adapts the work to each person's needs rather than using the same plan for everyone. Her background includes work with attention differences like ADHD and autism spectrum concerns, as well as grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and caregiver stress. She also addresses conditions such as bipolar disorder and panic, and supports people navigating life changes and postpartum concerns.
In sessions she draws on approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are used when they fit a person's goals. The goal is to build skills that make daily life feel more manageable.
She offers several remote session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person follows the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely and helps a person clarify what matters most, which can be useful for issues like self-esteem, parenting decisions, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors. It is practical and action-oriented, often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single technique. Over time the plan can shift based on what is working.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a weekday or evening routine and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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