About Annisha
Annisha Dunaway is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of clinical experience. She works with adults and teens who are dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes. Annisha brings a straightforward, warm presence to sessions and encourages honest conversation without judgment.
She draws from several therapy approaches instead of using only one method, and she tailors each plan to what a person wants to accomplish. Sessions focus on clear goals that the client helps set, so work is practical and relevant to daily life.
Background and approach
Annisha describes her style as open, encouraging, and direct. Her background includes service in the Army and work as a victim specialist with law enforcement, experiences that inform how she listens and responds. That history also shapes her awareness of trauma, first responder stress, and the effects of major life transitions.
She uses that perspective to support people through recovery and rebuilding. In the therapy room she helps people notice what matters to them and takes steps toward those values. Techniques may include mindfulness practices, skills to manage unhelpful thoughts, and short-term problem solving.
Sessions can include coaching-style conversations for career or parenting challenges when that fits the client's goals. Annisha works with people in Virginia and offers sessions designed to fit into busy schedules. She favors collaboration and helps clients practice new habits between sessions.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to what the client wants to change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by shifting attention from getting rid of thoughts to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust techniques based on what helps. That collaborative process means clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to use as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, practice between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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