About Annemarie
Annemarie Cristino is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy challenges, and stress. She supports concerns about self-esteem, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, career issues, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on hospice and end-of-life counseling, infidelity, and jealousy.
She keeps sessions direct and down-to-earth. Annemarie works to make the conversation feel safe so people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
Background and approach
She offers practical tools to manage mood and worry, and to shift negative thinking toward more helpful patterns. Her style is collaborative and strengths-based. Clients and she set goals together and identify small, doable steps.
That might mean learning new coping skills for anxiety, improving communication around intimacy, or building routine habits to improve sleep. Annemarie draws on nearly three decades of clinical experience in New York. She is licensed in clinical social work - LCSW - and uses that background to tailor support to each persons situation.
Her approach is steady and focused on what will help in everyday life. Seeking support can feel hard. Annemarie aims to make the first steps clearer and less overwhelming.
She offers guidance, encouragement, and practical strategies to help people move toward a more fulfilling life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two common evidence-based approaches she uses are cognitive techniques and skills-based therapy. Cognitive techniques focus on identifying negative thinking patterns and learning to replace them with more balanced thoughts, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Skills-based therapy teaches concrete ways to manage stress, improve sleep habits, and handle difficult emotions through step-by-step practices. A second useful approach emphasizes communication and relationship skills. This work teaches ways to talk about needs, set boundaries, and rebuild trust after events like infidelity or repeated conflict. Those skills can also help with intimacy concerns and improve everyday interactions. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which techniques make the most sense for their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesnt work. Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let the work feel closest to an in-person session, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep consistent progress and fit therapy into everyday life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
- Languages
- English