About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 12 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, parenting strain, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Anna focuses on practical steps that help callers and clients feel safer and more capable day to day.
Her work blends compassionate listening with hands-on tools. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She also draws on approaches that address traumatic memories and help regulate strong emotions. Anna began her clinical path with degrees from the University of Wisconsin system and has practiced in schools, clinics, and community settings. That variety shaped a flexible style that fits different ages and life stages.
She aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace they can handle. Sessions often include talk therapy, skills for managing intense feelings, and brief solution-focused planning to tackle immediate concerns. For people with trauma histories, she integrates trauma-focused techniques and methods to reduce overwhelming memories.
Creative options are used when they help people express things words do not capture. Parents and caregivers will find concrete strategies for sleep, eating, and behavior challenges, plus ways to reduce burnout. Career and life-change worries are met with coaching-style problem solving alongside emotional work.
Anna supports steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals first and focuses on empathetic listening and collaboration. It helps when someone needs a steady, validating space to make decisions or to sort out feelings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors; it works well for stress, anger, and mood swings. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, called EMDR, is used to reduce the power of traumatic memories so they feel less disruptive in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then recommend which methods to try first. Treatment is adjusted as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different needs. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or an option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling-style exchanges, or stepped support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or times when coming in person is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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