Dr. Annette Sauselen
Calm, practical support for parenting and family challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Annette
Dr. Annette Sauselen is an independently licensed clinical counselor (LPCC) with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward support for people dealing with depression, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting concerns.
Her tone is non-judgmental and steady, and she uses practical conversation and expressive options to help people move forward. She draws on client-centered work to make sessions feel respectful and focused on each person’s goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when patterns of thinking or behavior get in the way.
Background and approach
She also uses trauma-focused methods for people who have experienced abuse or other painful events. Sessions can include talking, gentle challenge, and creative or expressive activities when that fits someone’s style. The therapist listens for what matters most and helps build simple, doable steps between sessions.
Progress is measured in small, concrete changes rather than labels. Dr. Sauselen has handled a wide range of concerns across her practice, including grief, addiction, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue, and family and parenting difficulties.
She also addresses blended family questions, caregiver stress, communication problems, and financial stress as they affect daily life. Her approach favors collaboration: she asks questions, suggests tools, and adjusts methods as needed. Sessions are offered from Ohio and conducted in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy process, with subscription-based sessions that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful, strengths-based space. The therapist follows each person’s pace and priorities, helping them set goals and choose what feels most useful.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It uses clear, practical exercises to change how someone reacts to stress, mood problems, or relationship difficulties.
She also uses trauma-focused methods when past abuse or painful events are central to someone’s struggle, offering careful ways to process difficult memories while building coping skills.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person, discussing goals and trying methods that match their needs and preferences. Adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for busy families and people who cannot attend in person. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to use techniques between sessions when they arise.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Annette
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