Anna O'Gorman

Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 20 years of professional social work experience, including six years licensed as an LCSW. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also helps people manage chronic illness and issues that can come with aging.

Anna uses mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic practices in her work. Sessions involve talking through what is most pressing and trying small, practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns. She pays attention to how the body and emotions connect so people can learn flexible responses to stress.

Her approach is collaborative. She helps people name what matters, test small changes, and notice what works. That often means concrete tools for managing anxiety, grief, or pain alongside conversations about values and next steps.

Anna regularly supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and life changes such as separation or loss. She also addresses attachment concerns, communication problems, guilt, shame, and codependency. Her work often combines skill-building with attention to emotions and bodily experience.

People who come to Anna are typically trying to find steadier footing after a change or feeling stuck in how they cope. She encourages small experiments and practical coping strategies so daily life becomes more manageable. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Approaches for online sessions and practical fit

Anna draws on mindfulness practices to bring attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness work can help with anxiety, chronic stress, and noticing patterns that keep someone stuck. She also uses somatic practices that attend to body sensations and movement; these techniques aim to help people recognize stress held in the body and learn calming responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with clients to decide which methods feel most useful, adjusting techniques based on the client’s goals and preferences. That means trying something, checking how it landed, and shifting course if needed.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, for example by allowing shorter check-ins during a work break or avoiding travel time. Therapists can also adapt exercises so they work by voice or video and select activities that suit quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth when needed.