About Anne
Anne Marie Herwig Ward is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience in Pennsylvania. She focuses on parenting concerns and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and she helps people manage impulsivity, build self-love, and address social anxiety and phobia. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at parents who need clear strategies and steady support.
She uses approaches rooted in the person’s goals. Conversations identify what is most pressing, then short-term goals and steps are created together.
Background and approach
Sessions often include coaching for day-to-day routines, skill practice, and guidance for responding to challenging behaviors. Anne Marie draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also uses solution-focused work to set realistic, achievable targets and to build on existing strengths.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs gentle encouragement to try new steps. Over two decades she has worked with many situations that affect parents and children. Her practice emphasizes practical tools you can use between sessions, such as structured plans, communication strategies, and simple behavior supports.
She aims to make therapy understandable and manageable for busy families. Clients meet with Anne Marie for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works in English and maintains her Pennsylvania LCSW license with the number PA LCSW CW016323.
How therapeutic approaches work in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is shared, and helps the person find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs validation and a steady partner to sort out priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It uses practical exercises and skills training to change unhelpful patterns and to build routines that reduce stress and impulsive reactions. CBT works well for anxiety, ADHD-related habits, and behavior changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will partner with the client to pick methods that match needs, goals, and personal preferences. Sessions often start with short steps and adjust as progress is made, so clients remain involved in choosing what feels most helpful.
Online sessions can use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video calls let people use visual cues and interactive exercises. Phone sessions are good when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging allow brief coaching and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- ADHD
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English