{"id":605,"date":"2025-04-17T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=605"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:22:01","slug":"anna-been","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/profile\/anna-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>As an alum of BU&#8217;s Mental Health Counseling &amp; Behavioral Medicine program, it has been wonderful to work here as a therapist! My clinical experience has included working in residential and outpatient treatment for OCD as a trained exposure and response prevention (ERP) clinician as well as working in college mental health. Aside from treating OCD &amp; related symptoms (hair-pulling, skin-picking, and hoarding), I specialize in working with anxiety, phobias, and practice all therapy through a trauma-informed lens. As a first-generation American myself, I believe strongly in counseling being an inclusive space, and welcome students with diverse needs and identities. While my style of counseling is CBT focused, I pull from modalities such as DBT &amp; ACT and am open to working collaboratively with students to help them work through the changes they want to make in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Hobbies<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>Outside of work you can often find working on a knit or crochet project. I enjoy most every sport and do a lot of running &amp; rollerblading along the Charles River. I&#8217;ve also been playing ultimate frisbee since college! I love all animals and spend a lot of time cuddling with my rather large cat, Goose, as well as birding in the Boston area (these Geese are less cuddly).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education &amp; Training<\/strong><br \/>\nMA, Boston University<br \/>\nBA, Vassar College<br \/>\nLMHC<br \/>\nCZT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Interests<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>OCD, anxiety, phobias, body-focused repetitive behaviors (trichotillomania, skin-picking), trauma-informed care<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHS Committees<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>Gender Affirming Healthcare Committee Residence-Life Partner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Campus Involvement<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TerrierF1RSTS Advocate, BU Newbury Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16413,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/605\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}