Ana Maria Berryman, LCSW
Licensed in California · 21 years in practice
Ana Maria Berryman is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with 21 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 29353 · expires March 2026
- NPI
- 1215521661 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 21
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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About Ana
Ana Maria Berryman is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and aim to make the first step feel manageable for people who are nervous about reaching out.
Ana Maria favors an approach that centers on attachment and patterns in relationships. She helps people notice how past connections shape current reactions and uses that insight to change difficult cycles.
Background and approach
This work often applies to issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, and trouble with commitment. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. That can be useful for social anxiety, phobias, postpartum depression, and everyday worry.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to support stress reduction and increase present-moment awareness. Ana Maria has extensive experience addressing caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and first responder issues. She listens for what matters most and helps people develop concrete coping tools they can use between meetings.
The tone in sessions is straightforward and compassionate. Her background in psychodynamic ideas informs longer-term patterns that show up in relationships and self-image. She works with people on guilt, shame, forgiveness, and building self-love.
Practical steps and small changes are emphasized so progress feels achievable.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Ana names
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Online support
Online approaches that help you manage relationships and stress
Ana Maria often draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape the way people react today. That approach helps identify repeating patterns of connection, abandonment fears, or trust issues and makes it easier to try new ways of relating.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to name unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. CBT is practical and focused, which can be helpful for anxiety, social fears, postpartum depression, and day-to-day stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ana Maria treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. She checks in about what’s working and adapts when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and run full sessions. Phone sessions can work when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on compassion fatigue and related caregiver or first responder stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends attachment work with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness practices. Sessions aim to be practical, direct, and compassionate.
How much experience does she have?
Ana Maria brings 21 years of professional experience helping people with a wide range of emotional challenges.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California and practices with that credential.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Treatment can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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