About Annette
Annette Warner is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 22 years of practice. She works with adults who face stress, anxiety, mood disorders, grief, and ADHD. Her background includes long-term work with trauma and supporting people through parenting and relationship challenges.
She began her career supporting people with persistent mental health conditions and dual diagnoses. Over time she has also worked in educational settings and in foster care roles that deepened her focus on trauma.
Background and approach
Those experiences shape how she understands complex life histories and family patterns. In sessions she aims for a warm, respectful tone. The room is meant to be a place to talk plainly about what’s hard and explore practical ways forward.
She uses a client-centered stance to follow the concerns a person brings and to set goals together. Annette draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She also incorporates mindfulness skills to help manage strong emotions and build attention and self-awareness.
When trauma is part of the story, she uses trauma-focused methods to address painful memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day life. She supports parents who are worn down by caregiving and people dealing with sleep, anger, or obsessive thoughts. Her style is steady and pragmatic, with a focus on small changes that fit into busy lives.
Annette works with people in Minnesota and offers sessions in English.
How approaches meet needs in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps people set goals that matter to them, offering support and reflection rather than telling them what to do. This fits well for someone who needs a calm space to sort out parenting stress, relationship concerns, or the effects of trauma.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing small behavior changes between appointments, and reviewing what worked. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and some ADHD-related difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. That may mean blending client-centered listening with CBT exercises and mindfulness practices over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people connect face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins work well over chat or text for quick coping strategies or progress notes. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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