Ann Stancil

Ann Stancil is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing strong emotions and life changes. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. Ann is straightforward and nonjudgmental in sessions and aims to help people get back to the goals they care about.

Ann earned her degree from Indiana University Northwest and has practiced in behavioral health settings since 2009. She has 17 years of experience and has supported people with mood disorders, trauma, and complicated grief. Her work has included clients across the lifespan, from pediatric to geriatric populations, in clinical settings in Indiana.

Her approach centers on listening first and adapting methods to each person. She uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters to the person in front of her. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

In sessions Ann focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. That can look like pacing goals, practicing small behavior changes, or learning skills to manage impulsivity and strong emotions. She aims to make progress feel doable even when life is overwhelming.

People who value a direct, compassionate clinician often look to Ann for help untangling relationship issues, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and identity-related stress. She is based in Indiana and conducts work from her clinical practice with that regional perspective in mind.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person's priorities and building sessions around what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and guided toward realistic goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides concrete strategies for changing patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ann will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

Because specific session formats are not listed in the provided profile, confirm current online options before booking. In general, online work can help people fit therapy into busy lives by removing travel time and making scheduling easier. It can also allow shorter check-ins, reduce the disruption of taking time from work, and let people use learned skills in between sessions. Ann uses her clinical approaches to adapt practical tools to each person's daily routine.