About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are anxious, overwhelmed, grieving, or managing life changes. Parents reading this will find clear, practical support for everyday struggles like sleep, parenting stress, and concentration concerns such as ADHD.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She uses client-centered care and practical skills to help people reduce distress and build routines that work.
Background and approach
Sessions often mix talking with hands-on strategies for emotion regulation and problem solving. Anna draws on trauma-focused methods when past hurts affect daily life. This can include guided processing and somatic awareness to help the body and mind calm down after distressing events.
She also uses tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach steadying skills for strong emotions and relationship strain. Therapy may include solution-focused steps to set small, achievable goals. Anna emphasizes pacing treatment to match each person's needs, moving at a tempo that feels manageable.
She aims to help clients notice progress in coping, communication, and self-care. Anna holds a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a Wisconsin LCSW. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Anna uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's priorities and strengths, offering empathic listening and collaborative problem solving for stress, relationships, and self-esteem. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps process past events that continue to cause symptoms, using paced interventions that attend to nervous system reactions and emotional safety.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she tailors a plan that might combine skills training, trauma work, and short-term solution-focused steps so progress feels steady and meaningful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations and guided exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter touchpoints. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into school runs, work breaks, or busy days while keeping treatment consistent and goal oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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