Anna O'GormanLCSW

Anna O'Gorman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 20 years of professional social work experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and major life changes. Anna aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and straightforward.

Anna draws on mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic practices to guide sessions. She creates a calm, open space where clients can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps people try new ways of coping.

Her background includes supporting people living with chronic illness and other long-term health challenges. That work often involves practical problem solving alongside emotional support, such as pacing activity, managing caregiving stress, and addressing guilt or grief about changing roles.

Anna also helps people navigate relationship difficulties like communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, and family conflict. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how early experiences affect current relationships.

In sessions she uses grounded exercises to bring awareness into the body and calm the nervous system. She encourages self-compassion practices to soften harsh self-judgment and to build small, sustainable changes over time.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Anna uses evidence-based techniques rooted in mindfulness and somatic practice. Mindfulness exercises help people notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept up in them, which can ease anxiety and stress. Somatic work brings attention to bodily signals and can help when emotions are held in the body, useful for trauma, chronic pain, and grief.

She also emphasizes self-compassion practices that teach people to respond to themselves with kindness instead of harsh judgment. These practices support recovery from depression, guilt, and shame by building a gentler inner voice and practical coping habits.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most comfortable. That collaborative process guides whether mindfulness, somatic techniques, or compassion-focused exercises are emphasized.

The listing does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, cut travel time, and allow steady follow-up for ongoing issues like chronic illness or caregiving stress. They also allow brief check-ins when a shorter visit is needed, and flexible scheduling to match someone’s routine.