About Anna
Anna Childs is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 12 years of practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, relationship strain, or major life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, with a focus on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She combines trauma-informed care with approaches that honor how the body holds stress. Sessions often include talk therapy alongside tools to help soothe the nervous system.
How Anna works
She uses expressive methods when words feel too hard, and she adjusts techniques so they are developmentally appropriate. Her training includes work with EMDR methods and other trauma-focused practices. She also draws on client-centered approaches and solution-focused strategies to set clear, achievable goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when people need help regulating strong emotions and improving relationships. In sessions, Anna aims to make complex problems feel manageable. She works on skills for sleeping, eating, self-esteem, and coping with chronic pain or illness.
She also addresses issues like attachment, communication, codependency, and parenting stress when those concerns come up. People meet her and find a steady, practical guide through hard moments. She emphasizes collaboration and gradual progress so change is sustainable.
The work is paced to match each person’s needs and priorities.
Anna lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approach and benefits of online trauma-informed care
Anna uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, collaborative relationship where people set their own goals and feel heard. This approach focuses on understanding a person’s perspective and working at their pace to build resilience and clarity.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach concrete techniques for managing intense emotions, reducing reactive behavior, and improving communication. DBT supports people who need practical tools for staying calm and connected during conflict or stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, explain how each method may help, and adapt the plan to a person’s goals and comfort level. That collaborative process helps find what works best over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow richer conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently.
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