About Anna
Anna Bruno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with parenting concerns, workplace strain, self-esteem struggles, and caregiver fatigue. Her practical approach aims to make problems feel more manageable and to identify next steps that fit each person's life.
Anna draws on seven years of clinical experience and a background in social work from the University of Illinois.
Background and approach
She has worked alongside programs that support autistic people and those with developmental or intellectual disabilities. That experience shapes how she helps people who face communication differences or additional care needs. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients set clear, doable goals.
Conversations focus on coping skills, improving communication, and planning actions that reduce stress and increase confidence. She encourages self-determination and works with each person to highlight strengths they already have. Her work includes practical coaching around career direction, family-role changes, and managing chronic illness or caregiving stress.
She also helps people sort through relationship tensions and parenting challenges without judgment. Sessions are straightforward and geared toward everyday life problems. Anna is comfortable using a variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match someone’s needs.
She aims to be a sounding board, a respectful consultant, and a partner in goal-setting as people navigate transitions and build coping strategies.
Approaches and online care for practical change
Anna uses evidence-based techniques focused on building coping skills and setting clear goals. One common approach involves behavioral strategies that break problems into small steps and create manageable routines to reduce anxiety and overwhelm. This helps with stress, caregiving demands, and daily functioning. Another approach centers on communication skills training, which teaches ways to express needs and set boundaries; it is useful for relationship strain, workplace issues, and family-role shifts.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to pick approaches that fit their goals, preferences, and situation. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time so progress is practical and realistic.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to get consistent support from licensed professionals without traveling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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