Dr. Annette Sauselen , LPCC

Dr. Annette Sauselen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and art therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She has worked with a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting difficulties, career transitions, personality disorders, and phase-of-life issues. She has also supported many people who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.

Her counseling style is consistently non-judgmental and supportive, offering gentle yet constructive challenges aimed at promoting growth and progress. She incorporates expressive or art-based methods when that approach better fits a person's comfort or needs, and she values providing space for individuals to tell their stories and process difficult experiences.

Dr. Sauselen emphasizes practical coping skills alongside emotional exploration, helping people work through grief, anger, addiction concerns, and changes that come with blended families or caregiving roles. She aims to foster greater self-understanding, stronger relationships, and renewed purpose. Healing and recovery are presented as reachable goals, and her practice centers on respectful collaboration and steady support.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care

Dr. Sauselen practices client-centered therapy, which centers on creating a respectful, empathetic space where the person's values and choices guide the work. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, grief, and life transitions because it emphasizes understanding and collaboration.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers concrete strategies for managing depression, anxiety, mood difficulties, and coping with stress, and those strategies adapt effectively to remote sessions through conversation and structured exercises.

Trauma-focused methods are incorporated when past injury or abuse is a central concern, with attention to pacing and safety and practices that support processing traumatic memories and building coping resources. The therapist works with each person to determine when and how to use these methods.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process; Dr. Sauselen collaborates with individuals to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences so the work feels like a joint effort. Online therapy formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - provide flexibility and make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, access care from home, and maintain continuity of support over time.