About Annette
Annette Burleigh is a licensed clinical social worker in Oklahoma with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on family concerns, grief and loss, parenting challenges, and building self-esteem. Her approach helps people navigate major life changes and regain a sense of direction.
Annette centers sessions on each person’s lived experience and strengths. She treats clients as the experts in their own story and helps them apply what already works.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with steps people can try between sessions. She draws on long experience supporting people through adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, and young adult transitions. Annette also assists those facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric questions, and end-of-life or hospice concerns.
Financial strain, fertility worries, and recovery after disasters are other areas she addresses. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps set small, achievable goals.
People often come away with a plan to handle the next difficult conversation or a step to reduce daily stress. Annette works with people who need help coping with midlife shifts, building confidence, or managing family conflict. She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Getting started begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
Approaches that guide online work and support
Annette uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical problem solving and strengthening personal resources. One common approach is strengths-based work, which helps people identify what already works for them and build on those skills to face parenting challenges, grief, or family conflict. Another approach centers on coping skills training, teaching clear steps and routines that reduce daily stress and improve emotional regulation during life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Annette collaborates with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration includes reviewing what has helped in the past and trying small changes to see what feels useful before adjusting the plan.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling busy schedules or long distances. Video calls allow face-to-face connection when meeting in person isn’t possible. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send updates, ask quick questions, or keep momentum between sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English