About Ann
Dr. Ann Maureen McCaughan holds a PhD in Counseling and Counselor Education and brings 18 years of clinical and teaching experience to her practice.
Background and approach
She has worked as a counselor, supervisor, and professor, and maintains an active role in training future counselors while continuing to refine her own clinical skills. Licensed as an LCPC in Illinois, she combines academic rigor with practical, client-focused care.
Dr. McCaughan frames therapy around clients' goals and values, offering a collaborative and respectful stance that treats the client as the expert on their life.
Her style is gentle yet direct; she supports exploration of identity, coping patterns, and relationship dynamics while helping clients identify and change unhelpful behaviors. Areas she addresses include anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, stress, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and other life changes.
Her work emphasizes authenticity and measurable progress, integrating evidence-based interventions tailored to each person. Dr.
McCaughan aims to help people increase satisfaction and success in life through thoughtful goal-setting, practical strategies, and ongoing reflection.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. McCaughan uses methods such as Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work in clear, practical ways. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current emotions and connections, and it can help people understand and shift long-standing relational responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, offering tools to change unhelpful thinking and build skills for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and presenting concerns and work together with each person to select or adapt methods that fit their needs, adjusting strategies as the work unfolds.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to integrate therapy into a busy life, allow steady progress when in-person meetings are difficult, and provide multiple ways to engage depending on what feels most helpful for the client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English