Ann Hurst

Ann Hurst is an Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 18 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Her practice also includes support around life purpose and issues like isolation, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and veteran-related concerns.

Ann focuses on practical work in the room. She helps people develop coping skills for panic, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and social anxiety. She also addresses guilt, shame, forgiveness, and grief in straightforward conversations that aim to reduce day-to-day distress.

Her sessions include structured techniques drawn from evidence-based therapeutic practices. Those methods are used to build coping strategies, process difficult events, and practice new responses to recurring problems. Ann pays attention to a person’s values and what matters most to them as part of planning next steps.

People often come to her when a life change leaves them uncertain or overwhelmed. She works with caregivers and with adults navigating workplace stress, chronic pain, or illness. Veteran and armed forces experiences are also a part of her practice.

Ann describes the work as collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She helps clients pick practical tools and tries approaches that can be used between sessions. If someone wants to explore life purpose, she includes that alongside other concerns rather than treating it as a separate program.

Approaches used in remote sessions and how they help

Ann uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and processing difficult experiences. One common approach she draws on teaches breathing, grounding, and behavior strategies to manage panic, anxiety, and intense stress. These techniques help people interrupt unhelpful physical and mental reactions in the moment and practice calmer responses.

She also uses structured methods that help people examine repetitive thoughts and compulsive patterns. This work involves identifying unhelpful thinking, testing those thoughts, and trying new behaviors in daily life. It’s often used for obsessive patterns, phobias, and worry that gets in the way of everyday functioning.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ann works with each person to identify what fits their goals and preferences. She will try methods, review how they’re working, and adjust plans based on what the client reports and what life demands at the time.

For practical matters, please confirm current session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy fits around work or caregiving duties. Discuss format options during the initial matching questionnaire and first session so sessions can be arranged to match daily routines.