Ana Stevenson

Ana Stevenson is an LCSW who focuses on helping people manage anger, stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She communicates in English and Spanish and draws on a client-centered way of working to meet each person's goals. Ana practices from New Mexico and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.

Ana has nine years of clinical experience and many more years of life experience across multiple regions. She spent time living and working in Asia, Africa, and South America before settling in the United States. Those experiences shaped how she connects with people and understand different life stories.

Her sessions emphasize person-centered care. That means she starts by listening and follows the client’s priorities. She blends talk-based approaches with techniques that involve the body and coping skills. Clients can expect tools to manage strong emotions, build safer routines, and practice new ways of responding to stress.

Ana uses cognitive-behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is part of her approach for processing traumatic memories alongside somatic strategies.

She helps people facing grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and immigration-related stress. Work often focuses on building everyday skills, improving communication, and easing the burden of painful memories. To begin, prospective clients fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Ana uses client-centered work to follow each person’s goals. That means sessions begin by listening and then focus on what the client wants to change. In practice this can look like setting clear short-term goals and checking progress each week.

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and try small experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, anger, and depression because it gives concrete steps to test new behaviors and ways of thinking. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for handling intense emotions - including grounding, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques that can be practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is usually collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust the mix of talk, skills practice, and body-aware work so it fits the client’s needs.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people access a clinician who speaks English or Spanish and who can coordinate care across time zones.