About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and trauma-related concerns. She practices from Wisconsin and draws on 12 years of clinical experience to support clients through difficult life changes and emotional crises. Anna prefers a calm, relational approach in sessions.
She uses talk therapy alongside movement-based and creative methods when helpful. Sessions focus on practical coping skills, emotional regulation, and small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
Background and approach
Her background includes graduate study at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earlier degrees from UW–Eau Claire and Fox Valley Technical College. Anna has also completed further clinical coursework through the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee to support her therapeutic work. She combines Client-Centered Therapy with techniques drawn from dialectical behavior approaches and trauma-focused methods.
This mix allows for skills training, steady emotion regulation, and targeted work on traumatic memories when appropriate. In sessions Anna may use expressive exercises and body-focused awareness to help regulate the nervous system. She aims to meet each person where they are and to move at a pace that feels manageable.
Anna invites people who are ready to change to try small, achievable steps together. The work is collaborative and focused on building resilience, clearer relationships, and more reliable coping strategies.
How Anna’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on the person’s needs and goals, with the therapist following the client’s lead and offering empathy and practical feedback. This approach helps people who need space to talk through emotions and decide what matters most to them.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds clear skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication. Online sessions can teach short, repeatable skills for calming down, setting boundaries, and reducing impulsive behavior.
EMDR-style trauma work focuses on processing disturbing memories so they hold less emotional charge. When appropriate, aspects of trauma-focused work can be adapted to an online format using grounding, pacing, and guided procedures that support memory processing.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, life demands, and comfort level. That may mean mixing approaches, trying skills first, or moving into trauma-focused work when clients feel ready.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make ongoing care easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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