Anna Evans
Calm, practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Anna
Anna Evans is a licensed clinician in Illinois with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical problems like depression, anxiety, grief, insomnia, substance use, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and major life changes. She speaks in straight terms and helps people take manageable steps forward.
Many seeking help want clear strategies and steady support, and she aims to offer both. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and shape goals together. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding the drive to make changes. Anna has training in grief work and insomnia alongside her broader clinical background.
She has worked with first responders and other mental health professionals, and she understands the pressures those roles can bring. That experience informs how she talks about stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are aimed at clear goals and practical skills.
She helps people build routines for better sleep, manage mood swings, and address substance use with steps that fit daily life. The work blends short-term tools with attention to deeper questions about meaning and purpose. Her credentials include LCPC and LPC licensure, and she practices in Illinois.
The tone in sessions is respectful and warm, with an emphasis on steady progress and realistic plans.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Anna uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify and change thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to mood, sleep, and stress problems. CBT is practical and skill-focused, and it can help with depression, anxiety, insomnia, and substance use by teaching tools you can use between sessions.She also practices client-centered therapy, which centers on listening and working with each person to set meaningful goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through grief, life transitions, or questions about purpose. Motivational interviewing is another method she draws on when someone wants help finding motivation to make changes; it focuses on clarifying personal reasons for change and building commitment.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can change over time as goals shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These options make it easier to attend from home, manage caregiving or work schedules, and keep continuity when life gets busy. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and adjust plans so therapy fits everyday life.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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