Ann Kite, LCSW

Ann Kite is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She works with clients who are dealing with trauma, grief, issues around intimacy and sexuality, and concerns common in midlife. Her approach is respectful and direct, focused on practical steps that fit each person's life.

In sessions she listens closely and tailors conversations to each person’s needs. She aims to help people identify what matters most and break big problems into manageable actions. Clients can expect clear goals, gentle challenge, and an emphasis on building everyday coping skills.

Her background includes long experience with LGBT concerns, gender dysphoria, and non-traditional sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. She also supports people facing obsessive or compulsive thoughts, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and the emotional fallout from disasters or loss. This range reflects years of clinical practice in California.

Ann uses a mix of approaches to match a client’s situation. She draws on client-centered work to create an accepting space, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior, and motivational interviewing when people want to make lasting changes.

She encourages people struggling with purpose, isolation, or major life shifts to reach out. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session based on availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist provides an accepting space and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches specific skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties.

Motivational Interviewing is about helping someone find their own motivation for change. It uses gentle questions and reflections to move people from thinking about change to taking steps toward it. Together these methods give a mix of emotional support, practical tools, and encouragement for action.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying different techniques and adjusting them as progress is made.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel and allowing flexible scheduling. It can also let people keep short check-ins when time is limited, or use different formats depending on energy and bandwidth. Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how appointments will be conducted and what will fit your routine.