Dr. Annabel Fields
Practical, accepting care for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- CA Psychologist PSY28382
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Annabel
Dr. Annabel Fields welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, changes, or difficult emotions. She focuses on the day-to-day problems that get in the way of functioning and wellbeing.
The tone in her practice is warm and accepting, and she emphasizes practical steps that can make life easier. Dr. Fields holds a California psychologist license, CA Psychologist PSY28382, and brings 19 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her approach begins by listening closely to what is happening now.
Background and approach
She uses techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and build skills that improve daily life. Mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies are added when they match a person’s needs. Dr.
Fields has worked in a range of clinical settings over nearly two decades. That background informs how she helps with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, anger, grief, addiction, family problems, and parenting challenges. She also has experience addressing issues related to gender identity and LGBT concerns.
In sessions she aims to create an atmosphere where people feel heard and respected. Together with each person she makes a plan geared to achievable steps and clearer coping. Her goal is to help clients move from where they are now toward better daily functioning and greater ease.
Practical matters such as how therapy is delivered, scheduling, and what techniques will be used are discussed collaboratively. Dr. Fields tailors the process to each person's goals and circumstances, adjusting methods as progress unfolds.
How online approaches and methods work together
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, which helps people feel understood and shape goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan is adjusted over time based on what is helping and what isn’t.
Online therapy with this practice can happen through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments. The variety of formats supports different preferences for real-time conversation or shorter, written check-ins.
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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