Annette Church
Compassionate practical therapy for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Annette
Annette Church is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who focuses on common and urgent life problems. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and issues with intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports those coping with major life changes, sleep problems, anger, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, and draws on acceptance and commitment strategies and motivational interviewing when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and focused on small, achievable changes. Annette checks in each meeting to see what is working and what needs adjusting. Annette brings about 20 years of clinical experience to her practice.
She has worked with people across a wide range of concerns and has trained and supervised other clinicians. Her approach blends structured techniques with listening and respect for each person’s pace. People can expect a mix of problem-solving and skills practice.
Conversations look at thoughts, patterns, and values, and build concrete steps for coping and change. The therapist emphasizes collaboration so clients help set goals and measure progress. Annette holds the LPC credential and draws on multiple brief and evidence-informed methods to meet practical needs.
She describes therapy as a shared journey and aims to provide direct, compassionate support for real-life struggles.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing new skills to change mood and behavior; it often helps with anxiety, panic, mood disorders, and sleep problems. Motivational Interviewing supports people who are unsure about change by strengthening their own reasons and readiness to move forward, which can be helpful for addictions and behavior change.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which approaches fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions include regular check-ins so the plan can change if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions let people connect without video, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or skills practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work routines and to access care from different locations.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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