Anna McIver , LCSW

Anna McIver is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 10 years of practice. She focuses on women's issues alongside a broad range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, and coping with life changes. Her approach is warm and compassionate, and she aims to help people feel heard and understood from the start.

Anna uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps set realistic goals. She leans on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on attachment ideas to understand how relationships shape feelings and behavior.

Her clinical work has included mood disorders, grief and loss, parenting strains, and fertility-related struggles. She also supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and compassion fatigue. Anna pays close attention to body image, codependency, commitment questions, and postpartum concerns when these come up.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Anna emphasizes emotional attunement and building trust so people feel safe talking about painful topics. She uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or distress tolerance are needed.

Anna practices from Maine and meets with people in English. She offers several remote formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a first session.

How her therapeutic approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It can help people understand patterns in close relationships, attachment-related anxiety, and trust issues. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard, build self-understanding, and find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a skills-oriented approach that identifies unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical techniques to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Anna will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That choice is reviewed over time so the plan can change as progress is made or new issues appear.

Online therapy offers flexibility that can make it easier to keep regular sessions. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access care around work, family, and geographic constraints while using the therapeutic approaches described above.