About Ann
Ann Hurst is a licensed clinician who helps people facing depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma. She focuses on practical support for isolation, finding life purpose, and navigating major life changes. Ann presents a calm, respectful presence that aims to make starting therapy easier for worried people.
She brings 18 years of experience to sessions and emphasizes straightforward coping strategies. Her work often addresses panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, social anxiety, grief, guilt, and forgiveness.
Background and approach
Ann also supports people managing workplace stress, chronic pain or illness, caregiver strain, and issues related to cancer and military or veteran experiences. Her approach centers on compassion and respect for each person’s values. She creates a nonjudgmental space where clients set the pace and goals.
Sessions focus on building skills, processing difficult experiences, and reducing daily distress. Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide treatment decisions rather than a single fixed method. She helps people try practical tools, notice what works, and adapt plans when needed.
The emphasis is on realistic steps that fit into everyday life. If someone is considering therapy, Ann invites them to begin with a short questionnaire and a scheduling step to match with her. She works in Ohio and offers services in English.
The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How evidence-based approaches guide online work
Ann draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people deal with anxiety, depression, and trauma. One common approach focuses on learning practical coping skills to reduce daily distress and manage panic or intense worry. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences to reduce their hold on day-to-day life and improve emotional balance. Both styles use structured steps and practice between sessions to build momentum.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify what fits their goals, values, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and clients are encouraged to give feedback about what feels useful.
Session formats were not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue care across life changes while keeping focus on steady progress and practical skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English