About Anna
Anna Dow is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She centers a welcoming, nonjudgmental approach and makes space for varied sexual and relationship orientations. Many people come to her seeking help with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related struggles.
She adapts her style to each person rather than using a fixed method. Sessions may include mindful exercises, expressive arts, and body-focused work alongside practical problem solving.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive and behavioral tools and parts-focused work to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. Anna has seven years of clinical experience, including work in psychiatric hospital and inpatient residential settings. That background informs her ability to support people with mood and personality-related concerns and those who have experienced severe distress.
She pays particular attention to how connection, community, and supports affect recovery. In sessions she helps people identify small changes that improve relationships, reduce overwhelm, and address feelings of guilt, shame, or isolation. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
She helps people set achievable goals, practice new skills between sessions, and build supports that fit their life and values.
Approaches, online care, and finding the right fit
Anna often uses mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and anxiety in the moment. Mindfulness exercises teach simple attention skills and grounding techniques that can reduce reactivity and improve focus. She also incorporates cognitive-behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes. These tools are useful for mood concerns, anxiety, and daily problems that cause overwhelm. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem likely to help. If something doesn’t feel useful, adjustments are made together so the work matches what the client wants to accomplish. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day. Together these options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice new skills consistently.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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