Dr. Annette Sauselen , LPCC

Dr. Annette Sauselen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), a clinician with advanced training and authorization to provide clinical mental health counseling. Across a 25-year career she has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting struggles, career shifts, personality-related concerns, and life phase transitions. She has also supported many individuals who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.

Her approach is consistently non-judgmental and supportive, pairing empathic listening with thoughtful, constructive challenges that encourage progress. When appropriate, she incorporates expressive and art-based therapy as an alternative way for clients to process experience and emotions. Dr. Sauselen emphasizes giving each person space to tell their story and to explore healing at a pace that feels manageable.

She focuses on practical coping strategies as well as deeper exploration of patterns in relationships and family history, addressing issues such as grief, addiction, caregiver stress, codependency, and mood disorders. With extensive experience across complex presentations, she aims to help clients identify meaningful goals and to move toward recovery and renewed purpose.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Dr. Annette Sauselen draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and experiences, creating an empathic, collaborative space where the individual leads the pace and focus of work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides focused techniques to help process and integrate difficult experiences when trauma or abuse has affected functioning and relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Dr. Sauselen works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative decision-making helps tailor sessions so they feel relevant and effective for the individual.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These formats support ongoing work over distance and allow licensed professionals and therapists to maintain continuity of care in a way that matches each person’s schedule and comfort level.