Anne George, LMFT - Therapist in California

About Anne

Anne George is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of professional experience practicing in California. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationships, addictions, and everyday life stresses. Anne speaks plain language and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable for worried parents and adults.

She emphasizes strengths and respects each person’s story as the starting point for therapy. She approaches sessions as a collaborative conversation rather than a lecture.

Background and approach

Anne listens for what matters to the family and then suggests straightforward strategies to reduce conflict and improve communication. Practical skills for handling anger, sleep problems, eating concerns, or substance use are offered when helpful, alongside attention to deeper patterns such as attachment and family of origin issues.

Therapy often includes tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to change unhelpful thinking and build workable habits. Attachment-based techniques are used when relationships and parenting dynamics are central. Anne also draws on client-centered and dialectical behavior therapy ideas to support emotion regulation and clear communication.

Her work covers many related concerns, including blended family stress, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver strain, codependency, and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with career changes, coping with chronic illness, and the particular challenges of parenting. Sessions are offered in English and adapted to fit a family’s real life schedule.

Anne frames therapy as practical and steady progress. She helps clients set small goals and practices that can be tried between sessions. The focus is on usable change at home and in relationships rather than on jargon or long explanations.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support

Anne uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. This approach helps with mood, anxiety, sleep, eating concerns, and everyday parenting stress by teaching concrete skills to change patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is used to help people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for chronic worry, avoidance, and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her work when relationship or parenting dynamics are central. This approach looks at how past relationships shape current connections and helps families build more stable patterns through new ways of interacting. Anne treats finding the right approach as a shared task; she will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try together. The plan can change as needs evolve so therapy stays practical and responsive.

Online therapy here is offered through multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to keep continuity when life gets complicated. Many clients find the variety of formats helps maintain progress between appointments and lets them use the style of contact that feels most manageable.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Anne address?

She works with concerns such as addictions, relationship and family conflict, parenting challenges, self-esteem, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career transitions, and coping with life changes.

What is her therapy style like?

Her approach is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then offers clear tools and exercises families can try between sessions.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Anne has 12 years of professional experience working with adults and family issues across a range of concerns.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California with license number CA LMFT 86774 and practices in California.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 12 years
Licensed: California
Languages: English

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