Anna O'Gorman , LCSW

Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of social work experience and six years holding a California LCSW. She focuses on common and painful concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Anna aims to create straightforward, compassionate care that helps people get through hard moments and rebuild steadiness in daily life.

Clients can expect a calm, down-to-earth approach. Anna uses mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic practices to help people notice how their body and mind respond to stress. Sessions move at a practical pace to learn skills people can use between meetings.

She often supports people adjusting to chronic illness, caregiving roles, cancer, aging and geriatric concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss. Anna also addresses attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness.

Therapy with her blends gentle reflection and skill-building. Conversations focus on what matters to the person in front of her and on steps that feel doable. The goal is to help people make clearer choices, manage symptoms, and find more ease in everyday routines.

Anna works with people in California and offers sessions in English. She guides clients who want to try online formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Starting is a simple process that begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Anna draws on mindfulness-based practices that teach present-moment awareness and help people step out of automatic reactions. These techniques are useful for anxiety, stress, and managing intense emotions by focusing on breathing, sensing, and small attention shifts.

She also uses somatic-informed work that pays attention to bodily sensations and movement patterns. This approach helps people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn gentle ways to regulate tension and discomfort, which can be helpful for trauma, chronic pain, or caregiving strain.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then try methods that fit those priorities. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so work stays practical and relevant.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for real-time conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or messaging lets people keep therapy integrated into busy schedules. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting sessions into work, caregiving, or health-related routines.