Ana Stevenson

Ana Stevenson is an LCSW who centers Mindfulness Therapy and client-centered care in her work. She offers calm, direct support for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Ana speaks English and Spanish and practices in New Mexico while accepting international clients.

Ana brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and a broad life history across Asia, Africa, South America, and the United States. She aims to build connection first, then help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and body sensations link together. This helps people find small, usable steps toward feeling steadier day to day.

Her approach combines mindfulness practices with client-centered listening and cognitive tools. She also draws on elements of dialectical behavior approaches and EMDR-informed methods when they match a person’s goals. Sessions focus on practical strategies, learning to regulate strong emotions, and improving communication in relationships.

Ana often works with people facing trauma, immigration-related stress, caregiving burdens, adoption and foster care questions, or major life changes. She also supports people dealing with addiction, anger, isolation, and career pressures. Work together usually begins with clear, short-term goals and adjusts from there.

Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Ana aims for a collaborative tone that emphasizes kindness toward oneself. To start, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How Ana Uses Mindfulness and Skills Work Online

Mindfulness Therapy focuses on present-moment attention and gentle awareness of thoughts and body sensations. It helps people reduce overwhelm, notice automatic reactions, and practice small changes in daily responses. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, respect, and working at the person's pace to identify goals and priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try alternative behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want concrete strategies to change how they think and act. Ana combines these approaches to match what each person needs and prefers.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and how someone responds to different techniques. Together they adapt practices like mindfulness exercises, CBT skill-building, or paced trauma work so the plan fits the person's needs and pace.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people try practices without leaving home. Licensed professionals can guide adaptations so exercises and homework work well in remote sessions.