Anna O'Gorman

Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of social work experience and six years holding an LCSW in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and major life transitions. Anna also supports people adjusting to chronic illness and related life changes. Her approach emphasizes simple, grounded practices. She uses mindfulness exercises and self-compassion techniques to help people tolerate hard emotions. Somatic practices are part of her work when clients want ways to notice and calm bodily reactions to stress. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Anna aims to make the room feel open and nonjudgmental, so worries and memories can be named and worked through at a steady rate. She helps people build practical coping skills they can use between meetings. Anna brings a broad background supporting issues across the lifespan, including aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, and chronic pain or illness. She also addresses relationship patterns such as attachment difficulties, codependency, and communication problems. People who reach out often want help with the emotional fallout of illness, loss, or big life changes. Anna works side by side with clients to identify small, manageable changes that move day-to-day life toward greater balance and relief.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Anna draws on evidence-based techniques such as mindfulness-based strategies and somatic-informed practices. Mindfulness-based work helps people learn to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can reduce worry and reactivity. Somatic-informed practices focus on body awareness and simple breathing or movement exercises to ease physical tension tied to stress and trauma. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and can adjust those methods as work progresses. Confirm current session options before booking since the original profile does not list specific online formats. Online therapy can make it easier to attend sessions around work, medical appointments, or caregiving duties and can reduce travel time. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or for choosing audio-only exchanges when video is difficult. Talk with the therapist during the matching process to decide which session arrangements will best fit everyday life and therapeutic goals.