Anna McIverLCSW

Anna McIver is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of psychotherapy experience. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, mood changes, grief, relationship worries, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and struggles like fertility or postpartum depression. Her tone is warm and straightforward, and she tries to make the first steps feel manageable for someone already overwhelmed.

She uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. That means she listens, checks what matters most, and adjusts the pace to what feels right. Anna also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior ideas to build emotion regulation and coping skills.

Her work often focuses on mood disorders, grief and loss, chronic illness, parenting challenges, and infertility or preconception concerns. She pays attention to attachment patterns and body image issues when they come up, and she supports people dealing with codependency, commitment concerns, guilt, and shame.

Sessions emphasize practical strategies alongside emotional support. Clients can expect to learn concrete skills for calming anxiety, managing intense feelings, and improving communication. Anna values emotional attunement and aims to create a hopeful space that makes it easier to speak up about hard things.

She encourages collaborative goal-setting so therapy fits into the client’s life. Her style is compassionate and action-oriented, blending listening with tools people can use between sessions.

How Anna’s approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape reactions today. It can be useful for relationship worries, attachment questions, and intimacy-related concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting the person where they are. It emphasizes empathy, validation, and letting the client set goals for what they want to change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear tools to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anna will collaborate with each person to pick or combine methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than insisting on a single path.

Confirm the available session options before booking so you know how she currently offers care. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They can also help when quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth are important considerations. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches effectively in remote formats, focusing on skills practice, emotional attunement, and problem-solving that transfer into everyday life.