Anne San Juan
Empowering parents with clear, practical guidance
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Anne
Anne San Juan is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who speaks plainly and directly. She takes a straightforward, nonjudgmental approach to help parents and families untangle stressful patterns. Sessions focus on understanding what keeps problems going and finding practical steps forward.
She frames therapy as a conversational space where people can explore thoughts and options. That makes it easier for a worried parent to bring up hard topics like sleep, eating, or behavior changes without feeling blamed.
Background and approach
Anne uses clear questions and reflections to help families notice patterns and try simple experiments at home. With three years of clinical experience as an LMFT she brings practical skills to family and parenting concerns. Her background includes work across mood disorders, addiction, relationship struggles, trauma, and caregiver stress.
She also addresses anxiety, depression, ADHD, and communication problems within family systems. Her style blends a client-centered stance with motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques. That means she listens first, helps people find their own reasons to change, and then looks for small workable steps.
Sessions tend to be direct, goal-oriented, and focused on what improves daily life. Anne sees therapy as collaboration. Families decide what to work on and she helps them try new ways of relating.
The aim is clearer communication, fewer repeated fights, and better routines that support long-term family wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for families
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person or family's experience without judgment. It helps parents and children feel heard and clarifies what matters most to them. Motivational interviewing is about exploring a person's own reasons for change and resolving mixed feelings. It can help with habits, parenting routines, and readiness to try new strategies. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps that create noticeable improvement quickly; it suits families who want concrete changes and new patterns to try at home.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help clients figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences and then adjust as needed. This is a collaborative process where family members set priorities and try approaches that match their situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and caregivers. Sessions by video or phone let families meet without travel, while live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins and reminders between meetings. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice new skills in real 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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point