Annamarie Compton, LPC

Annamarie Compton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She focuses on practical steps that reduce panic attacks, ease social anxiety, and unpack heavy feelings of guilt and shame. Her tone is calm and direct to make reaching out feel less overwhelming.

She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside a faith-informed outlook. That means she honors a client’s spiritual beliefs while using methods shown to help with symptoms. Sessions aim to teach coping skills, reduce intense anxious moments, and build emotional resilience over time.

Annamarie emphasizes a trauma-informed way of working. That involves moving at a client’s pace, noticing how past events affect present life, and helping people reclaim a sense of safety in everyday routines. Conversation, skill practice, and gentle reflection are common parts of sessions.

She treats each person as an individual and makes room for their values and background. The work often includes short-term tools for immediate relief and longer-term strategies for lasting change. Clients are encouraged to set clear goals and track small steps toward them.

Her practice is based in Virginia and she conducts sessions in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire to match with her and then schedule sessions based on availability.

How evidence-based methods translate to online care

Annamarie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside a faith-informed perspective. In practice that often means teaching concrete coping skills to manage panic attacks and social anxiety, such as breathing and grounding exercises, tailored exposure steps, and habits for calming the nervous system. These are framed in simple, repeatable exercises clients can use between sessions.

She also works in ways suited to trauma-informed care, which focuses on moving at a person’s pace and recognizing how past events affect current behavior. That approach emphasizes stabilization, building safety, and gradual processing rather than pushing for rapid change. It is helpful for people coping with trauma and abuse or heavy feelings like guilt and shame.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and regularly check whether the approach is working and should be adjusted.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to practice skills in real-life settings and bring those experiences back into sessions for discussion and refinement.