Annie Mays, LMFT

Therapist in Oregon

Annie Mays is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience.

Licensed inOregon
LicenseT0810
NPI 1356699409
Experience20+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Annie

Annie Mays is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience. She greets people with warmth and aims to make the therapy process feel manageable. Annie focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, addictions, eating concerns, and depression.

She also attends to attachment issues and questions around gender and sexuality. Annie prefers a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. Sessions begin with a shared conversation where both client and therapist assess fit and goals.

Background and approach

She describes her style as flexible and responsive, using different tools chosen to match each person's needs. Expect straightforward talk, reflective listening, and a balance of support and challenge. Her clinical work often includes Narrative Therapy and Internal Family Systems.

Narrative Therapy helps people reframe difficult stories they tell about themselves. Internal Family Systems makes space for parts of a person that feel stuck or overwhelmed, and helps those parts relate differently to each other. Annie also uses client-centered techniques and motivational interviewing to build motivation and strengthen decision-making.

These methods emphasize respect for the person’s experience and help people move toward practical changes in behavior. She is experienced with substance use concerns, body image and eating-related issues, and recovery from relationship ruptures. Clients meet with her online from Oregon using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To get started, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged based on availability.

Credentials

LMFT (Oregon): License T0810 · expires August 2026
NPI: 1356699409 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Annie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
LGBT
Eating disorders
Depression
Attachment issues
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Body image
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Family of origin issues
Forgiveness
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
Infidelity
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Postpartum depression
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Annie names

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Online support

How attachment work and narrative approaches translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions let a therapist notice how you describe relationships and help you try new ways of relating. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by re-authoring the stories they tell about their lives, which can be done through conversation, written reflections, and in-session exercises.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Annie will discuss what feels helpful and adjust methods based on your goals, needs, and comfort. Therapy is a collaboration where strategies are tested and refined as progress unfolds.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue consistent work toward change.

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Frequently asked

What concerns does Annie commonly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, eating concerns, and depression, and also supports people dealing with attachment-related struggles and gender or sexuality questions.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, combining conversational listening with practical steps and gentle challenge when appropriate.

What is her professional background?

Annie has 20 years of clinical experience working with people who have co-occurring issues such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, and substance use.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds the credential LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and practices from Oregon.

Which languages are offered and are international clients accepted?

Sessions are offered in English, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

People can meet with her via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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