Ann DePoole
Hopeful, practical support for real-life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ann
Ann DePoole is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, or substance concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to build trust so clients can speak openly. Ann has 14 years of experience and returned to school in her 40s to pursue this work.
She believes steady, small changes add up. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change daily habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to manage strong emotions and improve coping. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and move toward what matters, even when feelings are hard. Ann often blends methods to fit a person’s needs rather than sticking to one formula.
She pays attention to trauma, co-occurring disorders, and substance-related issues, and she helps people work through grief and major life transitions. Sessions focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Her work also covers relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, parenting challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Additional areas include attachment or abandonment concerns, blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, and aging-related worries. Ann practices in Arizona and holds LCSW licensure. Conversations happen in English.
Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people make useful changes in daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions toward those values even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It helps with anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful goals and practical steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and teaches concrete exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for stress, mood concerns, and habits tied to substance use.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. During early sessions she will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works for you. The aim is to match methods to your needs rather than forcing one model.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier around work, family, or caregiving duties. These options allow for flexible scheduling and ongoing contact between visits. Many people find the variety helpful when they need skills coaching, check-ins, or steady support while managing daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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