About Anna

Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are anxious, overwhelmed, grieving, or managing life changes. Parents reading this will find clear, practical support for everyday struggles like sleep, parenting stress, and concentration concerns such as ADHD.

Her style is warm and straightforward. She uses client-centered care and practical skills to help people reduce distress and build routines that work.

Background and approach

Sessions often mix talking with hands-on strategies for emotion regulation and problem solving. Anna draws on trauma-focused methods when past hurts affect daily life. This can include guided processing and somatic awareness to help the body and mind calm down after distressing events.

She also uses tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach steadying skills for strong emotions and relationship strain. Therapy may include solution-focused steps to set small, achievable goals. Anna emphasizes pacing treatment to match each person's needs, moving at a tempo that feels manageable.

She aims to help clients notice progress in coping, communication, and self-care. Anna holds a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a Wisconsin LCSW. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their life.

How her approaches translate to online care

Anna uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's priorities and strengths, offering empathic listening and collaborative problem solving for stress, relationships, and self-esteem. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps process past events that continue to cause symptoms, using paced interventions that attend to nervous system reactions and emotional safety.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she tailors a plan that might combine skills training, trauma work, and short-term solution-focused steps so progress feels steady and meaningful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations and guided exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter touchpoints. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into school runs, work breaks, or busy days while keeping treatment consistent and goal oriented.

Questions people ask

What concerns does Anna help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and other life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She practices a client-centered approach that blends skills training and trauma-focused work. Expect a mix of practical tools, emotional processing, and paced goal setting.
How much experience does she have?
Anna has 12 years of clinical experience working in a variety of settings to support people coping with complex stressors and trauma.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Wisconsin LCSW and provides services while based in Wisconsin.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
12 years
Licensed
Wisconsin
Languages
English

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