About Anna
Anna Marasco is a licensed clinical social worker with eleven years of experience in trauma, addiction, and dual diagnosis care. She brings a down-to-earth and straightforward presence to sessions. She invites people to bring both their struggles and their strengths.
She focuses on meeting clients where they are and supporting the goals they choose. Anna uses a human-centered, client-centered stance that treats coping behaviors as learned ways to survive. In sessions she helps people name patterns, understand how those patterns developed, and try new responses that feel useful.
Background and approach
She does not rely on one fixed method; she adapts her approach to match each person’s needs. Her work covers stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, body image, codependency, dissociation, and a range of personality and mood concerns.
Practical tools like cognitive-behavioral strategies or skills from dialectical behavior therapy can be mixed with deeper attachment work or trauma-focused techniques when helpful. Anna describes clients as doing their best and treats difficult behaviors with compassion rather than judgment. Outside of practice she holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and enjoys riding her horse, Henry.
Her style is warm, honest, and steady - she likens herself to a bumper in a bowling lane, helping people find their path without doing the work for them.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice attachment patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In teletherapy clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking, test new ideas, and try small behavioral changes between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories. When offered online it uses guided techniques that can reduce the intensity of traumatic images and feelings over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Treatment can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from any quiet setting. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier on days when being on camera is taxing. Live chat or text-based messaging allow short check-ins, written reflection, or more frequent contact without scheduling a full video visit.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English