About Anne
Anne Berbece is a counsellor with PACFA credentialing and eight years of experience. She brings a warm, steady presence to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction and trauma. Her approach aims to build trust and respect so people feel heard and understood.
Anne trained at master’s level in mental health counselling and has practised in trauma-informed settings. She uses that background to assess how mental health challenges affect thoughts, feelings and daily functioning.
How Anne works
Her work covers depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, eating and sleep difficulties, and compassion fatigue among other concerns. In sessions she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people notice patterns and experiment with small changes. She also uses client-centred and emotionally-focused ways of working to support stronger emotional awareness and connection to values.
Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit for addressing substance use and behaviour change. Anne takes a holistic view that considers psychological, biological and social factors when making a plan. She aims to co-create practical strategies tailored to each person’s situation.
People can expect a calm, curious counsellor who balances empathy with clear steps to try between sessions. Her practice is based in Australia and she offers sessions in English. To begin, people follow the site process to be matched and then schedule according to availability.
Anne lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Anne works with
The areas below are the ones Anne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Anne’s approaches work online and in therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing new ways of responding to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier emotional connections and self-understanding.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Anne will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and then recommend ways of working. The plan is collaborative and can change as new information emerges or priorities shift.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing care when life or geography makes face-to-face meetings difficult. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can adapt these approaches to phone or video work, helping people try tools and strategies between sessions.
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