Anne McLaren, LPC

Anne McLaren is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She uses a practical, collaborative approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on real-world skills parents and adults can use day to day.

With 15 years of experience, she helps people name the problems that are hardest to talk about. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and restoring confidence after life changes or loss. She aims to make conversations clear and useful so progress feels tangible.

Anne blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered listening to tailor each session. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused work to help clients notice patterns and try small experiments. For relationship concerns she uses elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and address intimacy-related issues.

Her practice covers a wide range of struggles including addiction and recovery challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar and mood disorders, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with codependency, control issues, infidelity, and loneliness. The focus is on practical steps toward calmer days and healthier connections.

In sessions she invites people to set clear goals and track progress. She encourages small, manageable changes that build confidence over time. People who want hands-on strategies and steady support often find this approach helpful.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Anne integrates cognitive behavioral work and client-centered listening to create practical, goal-focused sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration so clients feel heard while they define their own goals and choices.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Anne works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration helps shape session pacing, homework, and which strategies to try first.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is good for seeing nonverbal cues and working through exercises, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats provide flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, and other obligations.