About Anne
Anne Marie Briggs is a licensed mental health counselor in Hawaii who helps people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career transitions, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps that can fit into a busy life and on building self-love and clearer communication. Clients can expect straightforward, compassionate conversations that aim to make problems feel more manageable.
Sessions emphasize small, doable strategies for coping, decision making, and improving day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
The tone is collaborative and down-to-earth rather than clinical or overly formal. Briggs draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs. She brings ten years of experience working with people facing chronic health issues, caregiver stress, workplace challenges, and transitions such as pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and end-of-life planning.
Her background includes working with veterans and people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. She also supports those navigating fertility concerns, feelings of emptiness, and questions about life purpose. Communication problems and relationship patterns are common topics in her work, as are coping tools for chronic pain and illness.
Briggs practices with attention to multicultural concerns and varied life contexts. Therapy sessions use practical goal-setting and coaching-style support when helpful. The approach aims to help people leave sessions with one or two clear steps they can try between meetings.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Anne Marie Briggs uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management strategies that help reduce overwhelm in daily life. Another approach centers on goal-focused coaching for career and life transitions - clarifying values, mapping options, and creating step-by-step plans to move forward. Both approaches aim to make small, measurable changes that improve everyday functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Briggs will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and adapt methods over time. She works with each person to choose strategies that feel useful and realistic, and revisits those choices as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets you use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or when writing feels more natural. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or when travel makes in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English