Ann Ghabel, LISW

Ann Ghabel, LISW, brings a client-centered style to therapy. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and trauma-related concerns. Her tone is down-to-earth and focused on helping people feel heard and understood.

Ann draws on more than a decade as a licensed social worker in Iowa. Before that she spent many years working in an inpatient child psychiatry unit as a nurse and teaching psychiatric nursing. That background shapes how she listens, asks questions, and helps people make sense of difficult experiences.

In sessions she uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior techniques, hypnotherapy, and mindfulness. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, learn new coping skills, and practice techniques for calming the body and mind.

Ann helps people tackle specific problems like sleep and eating disruptions, anger, self-esteem concerns, and challenges tied to chronic illness or caregiving. She also supports coping with life transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues related to attachment, adoption, or blended families.

Her style is collaborative. She creates a straightforward space to talk through feelings and try new ways of handling stress. The focus is on steps people can use in day-to-day life to feel more in control and less overwhelmed.

How Ann's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Ann uses client-centered methods that focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. This means sessions start with your goals and priorities, and therapy moves at a pace that fits your needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches straightforward tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing day-to-day stress.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, techniques to teach skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. DBT-style skills can help when emotions feel intense or when someone needs clearer ways to cope with crisis moments. Ann works collaboratively to choose which methods to use and adjusts them as goals change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ann will help figure out which tools fit your situation and personal preferences. That process is shared - she listens, suggests options, and checks in about what helps.

Practical online benefits include easier fitting of sessions into busy schedules and shorter check-ins when needed. The biography did not list specific session formats, so confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it simpler to keep regular appointments and to practice skills between sessions.