About Annie
Annie Bennett is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) in Ohio with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety along with addictions, relationship concerns, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Annie uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help people make steady progress.
Annie draws on cognitive and behavioral tools to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She blends that with a client-centered, humanistic stance so people feel heard and respected.
Background and approach
Dialectical skills help with emotional regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. Much of her early work was in addiction treatment, primarily with women, including residential programs that accommodated young children. That background means she’s familiar with the intersecting challenges of substance use, family strain, and recovery.
She also has experience teaching at the graduate level in social work. Sessions are forty-five minutes and scheduled at a frequency that matches each person’s progress. Annie typically responds to messages Monday through Thursday and aims to reply within a couple of days.
She works part time and asks for patience when schedules are full. Annie believes change is possible but not easy. She likens the work to adjusting sails when the wind won’t change.
Her focus is on practical steps and steady movement toward the life someone wants.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and life challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on doing what matters, even when anxiety or doubt shows up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and offers clear tools to test and change them, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy addresses relationship patterns that shape how people give and receive support, which can be useful for intimacy issues and long-standing trust concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit those needs. Together they can adjust strategies over time based on what helps and what does not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions when seeing facial cues matters. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, coping skills practice, or ongoing coach-style support between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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