About Annette
Annette Warner is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 22 years of practice experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of mood and behavioral concerns. Annette draws on long experience supporting people through grief, parenting strains, relationship difficulties, and changes in life circumstances.
She has a strong focus on trauma and has spent many years working with people affected by adoption, foster care, attachment issues, and abandonment.
Background and approach
Her background also includes work with intellectual disability, autism and Asperger syndrome, and persistent mood disorders. Annette has supported people managing OCD, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and sleeping problems. Her style is warm and respectful.
She aims to make sessions feel safe and to give people room to talk through what is hardest for them. She listens without judgment and then helps identify small, doable steps toward feeling better. Clinically she blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices.
She also uses trauma-focused strategies when past events continue to cause distress. Sessions often mix practical skills - like coping techniques and sleep tips - with reflective conversation. Annette practices from Minnesota and offers services in English.
She has two decades of experience and brings that background to each session while tailoring approaches to a person’s needs. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
How her approaches translate to online care
Annette uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as primary tools in online work. Client-centered therapy means the conversation centers on the person's experience and goals, with the therapist offering empathy and gentle guidance. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing new, more helpful responses; this can help with anxiety, panic, OCD, and mood issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively to figure out what feels most useful, adjusting techniques based on what a person needs and prefers. Sessions may combine listening, skills practice, and short exercises to see what helps between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be faster check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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